Posted by David Sherman on Monday, November 29, 2004 at 9:58PM :
In Reply to: M35 Snorkel kit posted by Paul S. Schmidt From PA on Monday, November 29, 2004 at 8:53PM :
I don't know off hand where to get one, but I know they're fairly available. Take a good look at your truck because you might only need the air intake snorkel itself, and that might be so simple that you could fabricate one that looked just like the original. Many M35s I've seen already have plumbing on the gear boxes and master cylinder for connecting their vents to the air cleaner. The plug for the clutch housing drain should be stowed in a boss right next to the drain hole. The exhaust, at least on a multifuel, is already tall enough for fording. I don't think there was ever a mechanism to loosen the fan belt while fording. The new alternators are not sealed like the old generators, but it's supposedly okay for them to get wet. I can't believe it does them any good, though. Theoretically everything else is waterproof.
If you actually ford your truck, I'd love to hear how it does. I don't trust the seals on mine enough to even go through 30" of water, which is supposed to be okay without a fording kit, much less the 72" that the fording kit claims to provide. The fording instructions also say to repack wheel bearings and change all the gear oil after fording, so an M35 is not exactly designed to be a submarine.
There was an article in MV mag about 6 months ago about fording a deuce, but I was disappointed to see that the author didn't actually do it. I can't blame him, though.
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