So I'm doing a thing....with a snorkel

I've long been on a quest to set my truck up to make a lot of people give me hate. LOL,
I wanted to run both the KC Gravity light bar and also have a snorkel. The problem is that the snorkel tube is too high for the light bar, i don't really want to cut the hood, and the regular light bar brackets don't play well with the Rugged Ridge Snorkel either.

The GoRhino light bar brackets sits away from the frame. It minimizes how much paint damage you get and I was hoping would give me more clearance for the snorkel.
Turns out it's not enough.


But I've spent the money so....

Out came the heat gun!

I got the cowl section to give way and make room for the bracket. I need to go back and play a little more to make it a little prettier but it works, and I can still remove the snorkel tube if I need to.
Next was to deal with the height of the snorkel. It was simply too tall and interfered with the light bar. So it needed to get a little shorter.



Thankfully the tube doesn't neck down, so cutting out the central section and gluing the pieces together worked well. I need to go back and melt some metal screening or something to ensure the pieces stay together.

Here's the results




Now, I've just got to pull the snorkel off again and paint to cover up the seams and the ugly discoloration the super glue left behind

I’m not a light bar or even a light guy but it looks great! Snorkel is still high enough, nice job….Jack

Like that snorkel a lot better than cutting a hood. And it all fits nicely.
Sort of an old-school look I like.

Alpine Warthog said:

I've long been on a quest to set my truck up to make a lot of people give me hate.

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Well since you posted looking for hate, I'll give you some hate...
I hate the fact that, that snorkel won't fit the diesel. I like that it can be run in the low mode most of the time. Then run the high mode when you want/need it for dust or water.
I hate that you have all the KCs and I don't.
There is that enough hate for you?!?!?!


Nice job on making them play well with each other. Looks good.

RudeJeepin said:

Well since you posted looking for hate, I'll give you some hate...
I hate the fact that, that snorkel won't fit the diesel. I like that it can be run in the low mode most of the time. Then run the high mode when you want/need it for dust or water.
I hate that you have all the KCs and I don't.
There is that enough hate for you?!?!?!


Nice job on making them play well with each other. Looks good.

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LOL,

You know you've done something big once the hate rolls in! LOL.

Looks good, i have the same issue but havent wrapped my head around doing it yet, but lowering it might even work. Dang adding it back to the list ...

RudeJeepin said:

Well since you posted looking for hate, I'll give you some hate...
I hate the fact that, that snorkel won't fit the diesel. I like that it can be run in the low mode most of the time. Then run the high mode when you want/need it for dust or water.
I hate that you have all the KCs and I don't.
There is that enough hate for you?!?!?!


Nice job on making them play well with each other. Looks good.

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Yep, it looks like your parts are giving you hate..."you can't always get what you want...but if you try sometimes, you just might find - you get what you need."

StevieY1 said:

Yep, it looks like your parts are giving you hate..."you can't always get what you want...but if you try sometimes, you just might find - you get what you need."

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'stones.............

ShadowsPapa said:

'stones.............

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Yup - I figure the OP "looked inside himself and saw his heart was black"

StevieY1 said:

Yup - I figure the OP "looked inside himself and saw his heart was black"

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That might be true.

Guaranteed

I wonder how it would look painted with bed liner? Everything looks better after painting with bed liner.

Figmo said:

I wonder how it would look painted with bed liner? Everything looks better after painting with bed liner.

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Hmmm, that's not a terrible idea.

Seen a Ford recently the entire truck was sprayed in sand colored bedliner.

Do it !! And Send it !!