JT Diesel Snorkel

[SargeDiesel]

I can see it for water fording but then again, if you are in water deep enough to swap a low snorkel like the Hauk or the RR low mount, then you would be screwed anyway. Best protection would be for a rear snorkel for the exhaust like military vehicle have because if you suck water in thru the tail pipe, good bye engine.

As for dust, We had a group of 12 Jeeps on the 2900 mile Heart of the West Trail. as trip leader I could see the dust behind me in place so thick that visibility was zero up to 20 ft in the air. Even a tall snorkel would not help that.

I was driving my JKUR with the RR snorkel using the low snorkel and not the tall one. Even though I was in the front, the dust coming up from the front tires in places made visibility even on the sides terrible.

At night we would pull our air filters to either replace or blow clean of dust. Everyone behind me, even the few with snorkels had a huge amount of dust on their filters. My cabin air filter had to be cleaned several times and in the dust, I could see dust coming in the Jeep. But I had none on my engine air filter (used a K&N so dust would have shown up more). I mentioned that to an engineer at RR and he said that the Jeeps aerodynamics created sort of a vacuum there where clean air exists and the dust not so much. Made sense to me as to why my air filter was clean every day. Ever since then on the JK, I've kept the tall snorkel hanging in the garage and have not installed again.

the Hauk has an 18" extension as an option or for sale separately ($25/$33)

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[SargeDiesel]

Check it out.

I guess you have to cut a 3" hole in the cowl shroud ? If so that is a big neg for me, incase you ever wanted to revert. I really like the look and if you wanted to go extreme, the 18" riser is cool. Thanks

 

[Rusty PW]

I don't think we will ever see a snorkel for the diesel like for the gasser. Because it would have to be on the driver side pillar. That is where I think it runs into problems with vision.

 

[Deleted member 47279]

I guess you have to cut a 3" hole in the cowl shroud ? If so that is a big neg for me, incase you ever wanted to revert. I really like the look and if you wanted to go extreme, the 18" riser is cool. Thanks

just buy the plastic cowl to revert. way cheaper than the ones that have to cut the fender.

 

[Deleted member 47279]

Its TITS.

 

[ParatusExpeditions]

Looks like a sweet home ?

 

[ToJTornottoJT]

This is still the way to go

I think the Hauk air box and plumbing to the Rugged Ridge cowl snorkel is the way to go. Doesn't Hauk already sell their kit without the snorkel itself? All we would need is to talk them into adapting the housing to the reach Rugged Ridge inlet. Maybe another company could develop an adapter. Will Rugged Ridge sell just the cowl part of the snorkel with no plumbing?

 

[steelponycowboy]

I doubt Rugged Ridge would be willing to do that. I talked to them at the Moab EJS and there didn't seem to be any interest in selling something to make another company's product work with theirs, especially a low production product.

As for Hauk, I'm not sure if they would be willing to make an adapter for the same reason.

As for the 18" extension, how hideous ! Like I've said before, if you get into water so deep to swamp the snorkel, you've already ruined your Jeep most likely. In fact, once you swamp the electronics you are done for so the snorkel does little, especially the tall ones to help you ford deep water.

Snorkels for the most part are to bring cooler air into the engine. The low snorkel eats much less dust than the tall snorkel. For many a snorkel is nothing more than an ornament.

 

[Deleted member 47279]

I doubt Rugged Ridge would be willing to do that. I talked to them at the Moab EJS and there didn't seem to be any interest in selling something to make another company's product work with theirs, especially a low production product.

As for Hauk, I'm not sure if they would be willing to make an adapter for the same reason.

As for the 18" extension, how hideous ! Like I've said before, if you get into water so deep to swamp the snorkel, you've already ruined your Jeep most likely. In fact, once you swamp the electronics you are done for so the snorkel does little, especially the tall ones to help you ford deep water.

Snorkels for the most part are to bring cooler air into the engine. The low snorkel eats much less dust than the tall snorkel. For many a snorkel is nothing more than an ornament.

doing desert running behind a crew makes the snorkel well worth it. ive used the short one and the tall one, and the dust level is way better with the tall snorkel. i wish they had made a standard one, but this works for me.

 

[steelponycowboy]

doing desert running behind a crew makes the snorkel well worth it. ive used the short one and the tall one, and the dust level is way better with the tall snorkel. i wish they had made a standard one, but this works for me.

I spent nearly a month thru 6 states on a very dry and dusty overland trip. The guys with no snorkels and high snorkels had to clean their air filters every day. I was using the Rugged Ridge short snorkel and had a clean filter the entire trip. I asked Rugged Ridge about this and was told the airflow in that area created a dust free vacuum, hence a clean filter.

 

[Deleted member 47279]

I spent nearly a month thru 6 states on a very dry and dusty overland trip. The guys with no snorkels and high snorkels had to clean their air filters every day. I was using the Rugged Ridge short snorkel and had a clean filter the entire trip. I asked Rugged Ridge about this and was told the airflow in that area created a dust free vacuum, hence a clean filter.

the short side feeding one?

 

[steelponycowboy]

Yes short side one. I've never installed the tall one that came with the kit

 

[ParatusExpeditions]

I spent nearly a month thru 6 states on a very dry and dusty overland trip. The guys with no snorkels and high snorkels had to clean their air filters every day. I was using the Rugged Ridge short snorkel and had a clean filter the entire trip. I asked Rugged Ridge about this and was told the airflow in that area created a dust free vacuum, hence a clean filter.

Did you ask them about the air being warmed up and to what extent by traveling for so long with angles in the engine bay? It seems very counter intuitive and didn’t see any data points flow graphs or anything on their page really. Would love to be wrong.

 

[steelponycowboy]

Did you ask them about the air being warmed up and to what extent by traveling for so long with angles in the engine bay? It seems very counter intuitive and didn’t see any data points flow graphs or anything on their page really. Would love to be wrong.

Actually I was referring to the low snorkel on my 3.6 Wrangler. I understand what you are saying about the diesel model sold by Hauk. I've never seen flow charts by any snorkel company before but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Sent several unanswered emails to Hauk so I've given up on them snorkel wise

 

[Escape.idiocracy]

Are any of these snorkels capable of running a Donaldson dust separator?

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