Finished my snorkel install and wanted to add a note of my experience here for potential use by future DYI installers.
1. Fender hole template. I had the correct template for my 2013 LC so no drama there like others reported in this thread. The only problem I had was convincing myself I had the location of the upper reference point correct (yellow highlight below):
The part I got hung up on was where to measure the 80 mm ( 3 1/8") dimension from, as you could pick any location in the hood to fender seam. The 80 mm is not straight down (vertical) from the hood seam. It took me a while to convince myself that if you fixed the lower reference point at 25 3/16" and 6 11/16" down (vertical) from the hood, the upper point can only be at one location and satisfy the 80 and 200 mm reference dimensions. I did this by measuring out a bunch of arcs until I saw there was really only one way to locate the template and satisfy the reference dimensions provided..
I am pretty sure that I'm the only on on Mudd who could get so vapor locked on a geometry problem and not be able to even mark the hole until I figured it out. I'm not going to say how long I scratched my head on this.
2. Rivnuts. I had self inflicted issues installing the rivet nuts. I messed up both rivet nuts by over compressing them. I did this by not using my rivnut tool correctly. The tool I had was from my slider install:
rather than turn the bolt I turned the nut on the tool which does compress the rivnut but allowed me to apply gorilla force. My tip here is if you have never installed a rivnut or you've done it once but its been two years, do a couple practice ones in the cutout from the fender template. You need to get some more rivnuts as the snorkel kit only comes with two. I did buy a better rivnut tool (shown in thread below). It allows me to limit the compression and I figured out how much by doing a couple test rivnuts.
rivnuts did not go in very well but I thought they would still work. They don’t they both spin when I try to screw in the screw and are now a little mangled. I know I have to drill them out but they just spin with the drill. I have not tried pushing hard with the drill. I’m afraid of getting...
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3. Cutting the hole in the fender is not hard but it is scary as you have one shot at it. I took the advice and made the first cut well inside the line. Ultimately I had to go to the line and then use a dremil to fine tune it. It was just slow. If I did it again, I'd cut at the line from the beginning because if you are an 1/8" inside the line, you can't test fit the snorkel so you end up at the line, The fine tuning is really only after you can get the snorkel into position and then can judge the gap abound it for consistency.
4. I initially didn't think the silicon elbow would really fit but it does. Lube is your friend.
Hey @radman, @grinchy and @1world1love or anyone else who has installed this snorkel. Do I ditch the OEM slanted air flow thing that goes into the fender and the air box attaches to and connect the FF silicon elbow directly to the air box? Seems like that is the idea but I’m not seeing...
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5. Added a check valve to the air box drain and tested it. This was easy.
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Overall the install is not that bad if you are not an overly analytical engineer....
