Mud-O-Meter Decal...
$3.00
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Suzuki Learn Young...
$11.00
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2FarOffRoad Decal
$3.00
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Yamaha Mud-O-Meter...
$10.00
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Why pay $180 when you can make one for $20
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One day after running my Rincon hard we hit a small mud hole. As soon as I hit it something was wrong, my Rincon choked down, lost all power and it cut off. I noticed that alot of steam comming form the water hitting the hot motor. Looking into it, I found that the way the midbody & factory snorkel is laid out makes it like a funnel for the steam causing it to be sucked into the air box choking it down. We removed the midbody plastic and hit it again. WOW it was a different bike that was not going to let a mud puddle stop it... I knew I had to find a more perment fix. |
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Now, I am not ususlly a fan of large, going deep snorkels. But this one was in need. I looked around the net and found a few that were nice BUT... $180 for a snorkel... They got to be crazy. Bayou Snorkels wanted $179 and Submarine Snorkels asked $189. For a bunch of plubming pipe.... WTF???
Looking at them, there just too big for my under water adventures. I started looking into makeing my own and came up with the following for just at $20 from my local ACE Hardware store. So.. after some use, I went again for my buddies.. Spent a $20 bill and had change left over to get a soda. I should call those other guys and see if they will through in a soda... lol.. |
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Go to ACE, LOWES or any hardware and get the following. Pictures tell the rest.. |
 Snorkel Kit |
 Snorkel 1 |
 Snorkel 2 |
 Snorkel 3 |
 Snorkel 4 |
 Snorkel 5 |
 Snorkel 6 |
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 Snorkel 7 |
 Snorkel 8 |
 Snorkel 9 |
 Snorkel 10 |
 Snorkel 11 |
 Snorkel 12 |
 Snorkel 14 |
 Snorkel 15 |
Directions if you need them:
- Remove factory snorkel (picture 4)
- Over look over your parts to insure can make the snorkel as pictured. (1, 2, 3)
- Take the 6" PVC pipe and put the flex coupling on one end. (6)
- put those 2 pices into the factory air box coupling. (7)
- use 45deg as a guide to cut hole in midbody plastic. You should make it tad oblonged from front to back because pipe will come in at an angle. (8)
- put redurcer on end of spa hose.
- put 45 deg. elbow on reducer. (15) You can glue this together if you like.
- insert spa hose into flex coupling at air box. (9 & 10)
- pull spa hose to enter hole (11) hole adjustment will need to be made to reduce stress on the plastic.
- put 90 deb. elbow on on last (12) DO NOT GLUE, you may want to remove it sometime!
- tighten up all screws on the air box coupling and the flex coupling.
- paint it up and your DONE.
