Home made snorkels

[4x4nick]

Just been looking into snorkels for my series 3 land rover. Didnt realise quite how expensive they were! I hear you can make them. Has anyone done this or can point me in the direction of some instructions?

[rustprooflandyracer]

B+Q drainpipe and plenty of flexible hosing. I found when making mine he biggest concern is getting the right filter, as the standard is an oil bath air filter with only one exit, so you really need and inlet and outlet for a snorkel. You can easily pick up a paper element filter off a 2.5 n/a diesel, but then you have to go about modifying this so it fits etc. Really a pain in the a**!

When I fitted mine, it sounds stupid but I bought a genuine air filter from the optional extra parts catalog, which luckly they had one at the factory and this mean it fits perfectly and is still the oil bath air type with and inlet and outlet, then  a case of just routing the pipe around the engine bay and under the wing to the window frame, where it runs straight up.

This is mine, which I finished a few days ago, i mentioned it on a previous thread.

http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?t=27232

Cheers

[Dr Neil]

when i made mine for my series 3 petrol i used an airfilter/ casing from a peugeot 306. they are made out of plastic and easy to mount(fitted mine in the origional place and just modified the bracket) They are also reasonably cheap (about £30) or you could get one from a breakers yard.

hope this helps

Neil.....

[Andy the Landy]

Try an airbox from a 90 then just plug the B&Q drainpipe in 8)