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Range Rover Ron:
Hello M-C'ers,

Just a litle tip on getting yourself a reasonablely priced snorkel for your RRC, mine is a 300 Tdi of 1994 vintage.
I bought myself a Defender one off ebay (check out kopdaz)
He sold me a Defender snorkel for £65 & P&P which worked out to be £73.

It's the type that fits onto the side vent of the Defenders, low down on the wing.

O.K so I cut off about four inches of pipe from the part that goes onto the vent,
this is because the bend in the pipe is past flush with the plate.
I curled the plate slightly to fit onto the profile on the side of the scuttle board,
I cut out enough of the side of the scuttle board to allow my flexible pipe to pass through.
I then fitted the flexible pipe inside the pipe on the plate, from the inside and sealed with mastic.
I then fed the flexi pipe down to the filter box and had to cut off the Bugle type opening on the air infeed pipe,
Now fit the flexi pipe over the air infeed pipe and seal with mastic & a hose clip. (seal the filter box while you're at it!)
Drill and fit the plate to the scuttle board now,
Keep the pipe pointing level backwards,
Now fit the metal down pipe to the door pillar,
make sure the distance between the bottom of the pipe and the end of the panel pipe are less than the length of rubber pipe, probably allow and inch and  half overlap both ends.
I rivited the brackets on to the door pillar with water proof rivits.
Fit the rubber flexible pipe you get wiith the kit to both metal pipes,
Fit the top filter attachment,
and Bob's your uncle!

It looks the dogs danglies.

Photos can be sent via email if you want a look.
But it does not take too much to work it out.
The total job took me about two hours.

Happy Days,

Cheers,

barriesheene:
Ronnie...........I wonder if i could do something similar with my V8 ? I was going to b&q and seeing what I could lash together. You know, table leg here, cable tie there maybe a bit of vacuum hose  :lol: :lol:

Wolfie_:

--- Quote from: barriesheene on February 07, 2008, 20:59:42 ---Ronnie...........I wonder if i could do something similar with my V8 ? I was going to b&q and seeing what I could lash together. You know, table leg here, cable tie there maybe a bit of vacuum hose  :lol: :lol:

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Its easy!! I did mine using a snorkel top from eblag for £28 and a bit of alloy pipe also from eblag £10, cut through the scuttle panel and used some door seal to trim the hole and then some flexi pipe to attach to the filter box which as of yet I havent got

iomlr:
How did you attach it to the Windscreen pillar? pics possible?

Range Rover Ron:
Hello iomer,

I'm off greenlaning now for the weekend and have no photos yet,
I'll take some over the weekend and send them probably on Monday.
cheers,

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