Explorer With A Snorkel!?
- Thread starter Brucethebagpipeguy
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Scott Brady
Founder
Truck is looking great 
What is next on the list?
What is next on the list?
Brucethebagpipeguy
New member
Thanks for the welcome.
The snorkel is a modified Tacoma unit. Next on the list are sliders, rear bumper with tire and gas can carriers, and a custom roof rack/basket, OME add-a-leaf, Ford #1 torsion-bars. After that a locker in the rear, extra tranny cooler, and maybe someday an RCD Ranger 5 inch lift. My focus is more on daily driving, family camping, touring and up to 31 inches (below the alternator) of mud or water than on radical trails.
On the maiden voyage of the snorkel I drove into and out of a mud pit over 100 feet long with water above the headlights. Can you say pucker factor?
The snorkel is a modified Tacoma unit. Next on the list are sliders, rear bumper with tire and gas can carriers, and a custom roof rack/basket, OME add-a-leaf, Ford #1 torsion-bars. After that a locker in the rear, extra tranny cooler, and maybe someday an RCD Ranger 5 inch lift. My focus is more on daily driving, family camping, touring and up to 31 inches (below the alternator) of mud or water than on radical trails.
On the maiden voyage of the snorkel I drove into and out of a mud pit over 100 feet long with water above the headlights. Can you say pucker factor?
Brucethebagpipeguy
New member
I better keep buying lottery tickets and start collecting cans and bottles.
HAHAHA
HAHAHA
BajaTaco
Swashbuckler
Yea, no kidding! Oh man, that is a good grocery list you have going there. Sounds like a well-rounded plan. Pretty neat that you got a Tacoma snorkel to fit that well. Did you have to do trimming to get it to be so flush? Or did it just coincidentally fit that way?
100' of mud? No thanks.
100' of mud? No thanks.
sacto_patrol
Adventurer
Were are you Sac. ?
I am in the Arden Park area. The Explorer is looking good. Glad to see another Nor. Cal. person on the board.
Regards,
Jon
I am in the Arden Park area. The Explorer is looking good. Glad to see another Nor. Cal. person on the board.
Regards,
Jon
Brucethebagpipeguy
New member
I looked at the whole product line and the Taco' snorkel worked best for me. I probably could have used a 100 series snorkel and achieved the same result.
I pulled the fender, took 60 or 70 measurements, put the fender back, drank a couple beers real fast, and attacked it with a 3 1/2 inch hole saw. After that I got out my heat gun and silicon and forced the snorkel to comply. I plan to continue chipping away at my grocery list in November. October is completely wiped out.
Sacto-Patrol
I live in North Natomas near Inderkum High School.
I pulled the fender, took 60 or 70 measurements, put the fender back, drank a couple beers real fast, and attacked it with a 3 1/2 inch hole saw. After that I got out my heat gun and silicon and forced the snorkel to comply. I plan to continue chipping away at my grocery list in November. October is completely wiped out.
Sacto-Patrol
I live in North Natomas near Inderkum High School.
The BN Guy
Expedition Leader
That looks real slick!