I make my dog wear one when we do water crossings. You can't be too prepared.
maybe you could do something like this....
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If you think this snorkel is cool, raise your hand,
If you raised your hand, slap yourself.
If you think any snorkel or a angry grille on a jeep is cool , raise your hand !
If you raised your hand, slap yourself and keep it up until I tell you to stop !!!!!
Has it ever occurred to anyone that if you have something like 6 linear feet of ducting to an intake that it is near impossible to clean that, and the more dirt that lines it the more unstable it is.
The original air filters we ON the carburetor. That is a short run.
A snorkel could be useful when fording deep bodies of water, but as a DD going to and from school/work/grocery store, not so much.
A snorkel could be useful when fording deep bodies of water, but as a DD going to and from school/work/grocery store, not so much.
And deep bodies of water never killed anyone either
Snorkels just give the driver a false sense of security
Well at a glance it looks like it would- And maybe that’s because it gives the impression that you can actually submerge the vehicle up to the roof
In my mind you’re safe up to the point you start ingesting water into the transmission and electronics.
Large balls help..Snorkels just give the driver a false sense of security
You'll not find a great deal of love for snorkels here. I think they were initially a solution to dust rather than water; what you will often be asked is if all the water vulnerable electrical equipment has been protected. I can't speak for any parts of the US, but from my experience of the UK I can very much see that there is a benefit of a snorkel. I don't see it as a way of equiping a TJ to do epic river crossings, but having seen somebody I know hydrolock an engine when water they were crossing turned out to be a bit deeper than expected I can see the benefit of a snorkel as a form of insurance. A replacement starter motor is a lot cheaper than a replacement engine - which is what happened to the one that was hydrolocked.
Back to your question. In short I've not seen one that allows the windscreen to be folded down. But, by way of a data point I have never lowered my windscreen in about 10 years of TJ ownership. If it were me I'd not not get a storkel just in case I wanted to fold the windscreen forward.
You need the tailpipe out of the water too.
Large balls help..
Sadly three guys were killed doing a water crossing in the UK just before Christmas. The crossing is on a known track that several people I know have driven and crossed. But there has been a lot of rain across the UK in recent weeks and river levels are much higher than usual. They got stuck and the current was strong enough to roll their vehicle and carry it about 400 yards down stream.