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Samsquinch the Terrible Magic Bean Manipulator
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I looked at a few people’s pictures and tried to glean what I could from YouTube and conversations @trigger enabled me to cobble together a Snorkel and also extend all the vent lines up into the top of the ROPS. I bought a kit of male ended hose adapters and 20’ of 1/8” ID and 10’ of 1/4”. I ran the 1/8 ID line for the front and rear differentials and the radiator vent line. I used the 1/4 line for the fuel vent. I had wanted to use 1/4” for everything but the two parts stores had limited supplies and had to just make do. All the vent lines terminate above the rear of the passengers headroom except for the fuel vent line. That’s above the drivers head. I left it long and wrapped it around the cage in case I ever need extra line on the trail. Or a melted Polaris needs rescuing. I ran a line for each vent and didn’t splice any together. I did not feel comfortable drilling into the frame to run the hoses inside the frame so I wound it around the ROPS and zip tied at various locations. I’m not too worried about hiding the lines and how it looks, and I tied them to back side the cage so as to not get grabbed by wayward branches.
The Snorkel- It was more of a challenge than I thought being somewhat mechanically and mathematically challenged. Although I managed to make due in the long run. I looked at maybe three different members like @badbowtie and @Appalachainriders builds and estimated all the various 45* 90* sweeps, streets straights.......anyway I apparently didn’t need as many parts as some of you other folks did. After cutting the stock intake line with a little too much extra on the end. I didn’t want to have too little when done so I took off a little at a time until I could get it right. At first I dry fit everything and then realized the seat backrest wouldn’t fit. So, I had to remove more of the intake, to the point where I needed to remove the flat part of the plastic bracing on the side. I cut it at an angle to keep some integrity and I only needed enough space for the Fernco to slide into place. Before I installed it, I cleaned the area with a heavy grit sandpaper. I finally managed to get all right after waaay too many tries . Lol. After glueing it I put about four coats of OD Green spray paint. I topped the PVC part of the Snorkel off with the commercial one I got from @JTW at the last takeover. So thanks for that Mr Wat. Son of a gun, it wasn’t as fun as I thought it would be.
The Snorkel- It was more of a challenge than I thought being somewhat mechanically and mathematically challenged. Although I managed to make due in the long run. I looked at maybe three different members like @badbowtie and @Appalachainriders builds and estimated all the various 45* 90* sweeps, streets straights.......anyway I apparently didn’t need as many parts as some of you other folks did. After cutting the stock intake line with a little too much extra on the end. I didn’t want to have too little when done so I took off a little at a time until I could get it right. At first I dry fit everything and then realized the seat backrest wouldn’t fit. So, I had to remove more of the intake, to the point where I needed to remove the flat part of the plastic bracing on the side. I cut it at an angle to keep some integrity and I only needed enough space for the Fernco to slide into place. Before I installed it, I cleaned the area with a heavy grit sandpaper. I finally managed to get all right after waaay too many tries . Lol. After glueing it I put about four coats of OD Green spray paint. I topped the PVC part of the Snorkel off with the commercial one I got from @JTW at the last takeover. So thanks for that Mr Wat. Son of a gun, it wasn’t as fun as I thought it would be.
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