Ya know I have seen that video posted in a couple of threads now and that was my thought. I may not be the most experienced off road person but barreling into that hole was not smart and the result was not unexpectedly a stalled vehicle. I was taught to go in to a mud hole slow but carrying momentum. So if there is something I am missing, I am all for learning.
When is a water crossing a water crossing
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kcjaz
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So my potentially too conservative approach of not wanting to go deeper than the frame rails was based on alternator location. Can the alternator really take submersion for a short amount of time?
bloc
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I haven’t torn apart a 200 alt but the one in my 80 had the brush holder arranged so that it held a pocket of air around the armature at that location. Either way there are plenty of examples of trucks with snorkels pushing bow waves over the hood, and alternators surviving just fine. Maybe it shortens their life, but maybe not? Mine has definitely been dunked. No issues so far.
What definitely kills them quickly is mud getting in there.
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Where I’m from, in swampy South Georgia, easing into a mud hole slow is how you get stuck.
What ever your comfortable with. I am comfortable with the wheel covered in puddles or slow moving water. I do have breathers on the rear and the rest are high enough. No snorkel. Never had any issues with clear water. I try to avoid the silty deep mud pits if possible. It's all that crap that gets into things that causes problems not so much the water. If there is any sort of flow my wife or I will do a walk thru first. I am more terrified of loosing control in running water and loosing the vehicle than I am of rolling over.
PhuckItImDone
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When she goes from LandCruiser to SeaCruiser
PhuckItImDone
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Pine Barrens in NJ. There is like a 2 foot ledge that stopped me. A slight tug from a tundra and i was on my way.
PhuckItImDone
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The boner was a buddy in a different tundra getting stuck right before me, and while they were pulling him out I was joking about how I had to wait in line just to get stuck....and then....
RET2
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OK let me see if I have this right, you watch someone get his salami slammed in the door and then you say next please?
PhuckItImDone
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More of a misunderstanding, 2 holes, "stay wide on both" and "stay right on both". Well I zigged when I shoulda zagged
RET2
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I feel your pain, been there done that but I'm wiser now, yeah right.
PhuckItImDone
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Ha, that was about a month ago. Yesterday I managed to rip apart my wheel, so im a slow learner
RET2
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Landcruiser to Seacruiser? More like U Boat
PhuckItImDone
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Had to add this afterwards
RET2
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How about U200 for the other side
Holy lord, it that was the ‘Oregon Trail’ he would have lost at least 2 kids, a wheel or 2, some clothes, and 2 boxes of bullets.
that had to be Russia.
I'm in Chicago and I do nothing. Never had an issue with the snorkel icing up. We don't get tons of ice storms though, mostly just normal snow
I suppose if it's really messy and it starts to get cakes in sleet and ice you might need to either stop and knock the ice off the snorkel or do what the Russians do and simply turn the head around. If I found mine was icing up that's what I'd do - you just loosen the one screw on the worm drive, rotate it, and then re-tighten.
