[Benjamin]

For those of you out there with snorkels on your C/K Pajeros: I had my Safari snorkel fitted purely as an insurance policy to provide maximum protection to the engine - especially under off-road conditions. A recent inspection (I had nothing better to do) revealed that the rubber connection running through the fender/engine bay aperture was completely separated. Further inspection showed that the siliconed connection between the snorkel pipe and the air box was not water tight at all. The snorkel was fitted 2 years ago by a very reputable 4x4 fitment centre, so I don't really doubt that they did a bad job - but the design of the connections are in my mind a bit dubious. From now on I'll just do a routine inspection of all the connections before an off-road trip.

Has anyone else had similar experiences, or was it just my bad luck?

[HBannink]

I would not call it bad luck just a bit of preventive maintenance. I prefer to go through my vehicle with a fine toothed comb on a regular basis and this "fiddling" has saved me quite a bit of heart ache but like th old saying goes "the cobbler's kids go barefoot" I was in a bit of a tizz in December and did not double check everything as it was ok last time and bang bad luck struck. Driving off road in a sandy area I heard the death rattle of a cv and when I got back to civilization I found one of the cv boots torn and running dry. Did a Heath Robinson to fix temporarily but the damage has been done, bad luck or failure to do proper pre flight?

Good part about this is I can see a "how to replace your CV joints" article on the horizon

Hopefully this kind of warning can save some other owner the nasty surprises that you avoided by discovering the problem

[CATS]

For those of you out there with snorkels on your C/K Pajeros: I had my Safari snorkel fitted purely as an insurance policy to provide maximum protection to the engine - especially under off-road conditions. A recent inspection (I had nothing better to do) revealed that the rubber connection running through the fender/engine bay aperture was completely separated. Further inspection showed that the siliconed connection between the snorkel pipe and the air box was not water tight at all. The snorkel was fitted 2 years ago by a very reputable 4x4 fitment centre, so I don't really doubt that they did a bad job - but the design of the connections are in my mind a bit dubious. From now on I'll just do a routine inspection of all the connections before an off-road trip.

Has anyone else had similar experiences, or was it just my bad luck?

Bejamin

I had the exact situation as yours on my CK(Gen3) with Safari snorkel. I think the problem is two fold:

The fact that the snorkel is in the way of the right hand headlamp bulb holders leads to it being disassembled often to put new globes in by your friendly mechanic. If not done properly, where the headlamp unit is removed rather than the snorkel to get to the bulbs, this could lead to the snorkel not being refitted properly.

Secondly the snorkel connections will be dissasembled every time you fit new shocks and coils, where the tyre place might also not be so vigilant in refitting the snorkel connections properly.

Once fitted properly it lasts, but if any of the above has been done recently, it is always a good idea to check it yourself.

CATS