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RAI / Snorkel advice needed on a 300tdi

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solihull-mick:
I do see your point about the wing type snorkels, presonally ive fitted a fair few safari type now, never had any  water ingress  issues, aslong as you remove the standard inner wing vent and seal it, i use pu windscreen bonding, and let it set for 24 hours before using it, , had one fitted to my own motor for many years now, i allways test by blocking to top with your hand, if it stalls the engine or close to stalling your home and dry, mines been windscrren deep many a time, never has water ingress, unless you roll it in a river  :oops:, that did bend a conrod, top went under water, whopps

topless matt:
I test mine regularly too with the hand over the top trick....stalls every time  :dance:

I had a mantec one but it leaked so i got a southdown for complete piece of mind, plus i think they look bloody good

Litch:

"Thats how the safari and mantec ones work, through the wing vent, BUT, you NEVER get a good enough seal on it and it will leak and the resulting engine damage will make you wish you drilled a hole in the wing.
Southdown is the way to go,  the hole is neatly covered up too"

They must have redesigned the fixing of the Safari one since I fitted mine to my 300TDi 5-years ago.
I don't know about the 200TDi but certainly on the 300TDi / TD5 there is no reliance on a watertight seal between the back of the snorkle & wing as the connection is made on a spiggot which protudes through the original air-inlet hole into the engine-bay, no-problems sealing that.

Looking at the 'Safari type' pattern ones that are available, they appear to use the wing sealing technique but my genuine Safari one doesn't.

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