I’m also in Central Fl area. Video was taken off 44 just past the Volusia County Fair area near the hunting club on some land my neighbor owns.
Ok. I’d be concerned about what we high enough to come in. Not so much what’s going on outside.
I hope your recovery goes speedy!
When you cross a river or stream, such as the Rubicon River, you go down the bank into the water. Generally the bank is steep, so your entire grill is submerged where the air intake is located and water starts coming over the hood, even if it is only 2 feet deep. This is when you suck water into the air intake, cause hydrolock, and ruin your expensive engine. This is why smart people buy a snorkle.
True, or they enter only at shallow angles and maintain a bow wave. I rebuilt two axles in my YJ due to water crossing. The engine made it with no issue. The snorkel is only one piece to the water intrusion protection system. Extending axle, transmission, and transfer case breather tubes is another. After the YJ, I do as much as I can to avoid water.
Smart people don't take their 40K+ JL's that have more computer components than the first Saturn V Rocket into water depths above halfway above the windshield. A snorkel is useless in any vehicle made after 1990. The whole DUST argument is BS as well. Seriously this there that much of a dust difference from he factory filter location under the hood vs the snorkel location 3ft higher. I doubt it. Air is probably cleaner under the hood anyway.
A snorkel is not for driving through water halfway above the windshield. But when you go down a steep bank the air intake on a stock Jeep is vulnerable to sucking in water.
I'm also very curious on this point too, as I'm planning on installing this:Does anyone know if the snorkel would interfere with a windshield light bar bracket?
something similar to this:
Same here, hopefully someone can reply before we pull the trigger.
