If you plan on driving your ATV through deep water or mud, getting a snorkel on your machine is something you might want to consider. A snorkel will help keep water out of your engine, so you can get through some pretty nasty areas on the trail without damaging your ATV.
If you get yourself into some deep mud or water for too long, your engine could stall. Your air intake could take on water causing major problems and costly repairs. I’ve done this before, as you can see in the picture, and that quad didn’t have a snorkel on it.
Luckily I was able to shut the engine off before major damage was done, but still it ruined the day of riding for us. I need to be towed out of the muddy water, then we had to open the air box and wait for everything to dry out before we were able to get the quad running again. If that ATV had a snorkel, there would have been no problems.
Snorkeling your ATV is when you install a system onto your engine that will allow air to get where it needs to even in deeper water or mud. You will most likely see risers or stacks sticking up from the quad to capture or release air safely above the water line.
After you install a snorkel on your machine, the only part you need to worry about keeping above water is the opening of those stacks.
Snorkeling your ATV is most useful for getting though deep water or mud. It will keep water out of the most important parts of your engine that are only supposed to subject to air. Feeding clean air safely to your engine to keep you riding through wet environments.
The main components you will need to snorkel are the air box, your clutch belt intake, and clutch belt exhaust. The clutch belt intake and exhaust will both need their own snorkel. If you try to connect them, the intake will be getting the heat from the exhaust and will overheat and wear out your clutch belt.
You may want to snorkel your exhaust ports as well. If you’re giving the engine enough gas going through the water, that pressure should prevent any water from entering the exhaust.
But if by chance water does enter through your exhaust it could cause major problems. This will most likely happen if plan to sit idling in the water.
It’s also a good idea to water proof your electrical connections. I’ve heard of people snorkeling their electrical box, but that seems like overkill. The point is to just prevent water from getting to the electrical parts of the engine.
Other areas to snorkel might include thing like your crackcase breather tube or differential vents and carb vents. If you’ll be hitting the occasional mud pit or stream crossing, the air box, clutch belt, and electrical stuff need to be taken care of as well as the carb breather if your engine has a carburetor.
There are some pretty good kits available on the market for most machines. The snorkel kits will vary from quad to quad because they are all set up a bit differently. A snorkel kit will be more expensive than making your own, but will come with everything you need and make for an easier quicker install.
Plus the kits might even come with some kind of warranty.
You can use this link to find a Good ATV Snorkel Kit on Amazon. Just be sure to get the right one for your machine. They kits will vary a bit and the parts are custom made for each different engine.
I don’t need to go over installation here because the snorkel kits come with instructions that are really easy to follow along with. You will need some basic hand tools to get the snorkel kit installed and you’ll be all set.
Making your ATV snorkel can be fun and won’t cost you too much money either. I’ll admit, a lot times it won’t look as nice as the professional snorkel kits you can buy, but if you do it right it will work all the same.
The cheapest thing to use is just some good old pvc pipe. You can find pvc pipe at any home repair store like Home Depot or Lowes. It’s best to know the path you’re going to take first and plan out how many bends, how much pipe, and how many 90 degree connectors you will need.
First, locate your air box and see what you’re going to need to snorkel it. A lot of quads already come with a factory snorkel, they just don’t go very far. In this case you can hook some pvc right to that factory snorkel and just extend it up as high you’d like.
I’ve seen some people use pool hose to navigate around the engine easier than you could with pvc pipe. It looks a little raggedy with the duck tape and all in this picture, but i’m sure if you secure it right and use some better connectors you can get a decent looking snorkel system going.
If you have a carburetor on your engine, it’s pretty easy to just extend the carb breather tube that’s already existing on the quad. You can find little tube connectors at most auto parts stores like Napa or Autozone. The just get some tubing and extend the carb tube up to a safe area on the machine.
Do the same thing for the front and rear differential breather. These lines are usually already ran pretty high up onto the quad up near the handle bars.
But if you want them to be even further up out of the water it won’t hurt to extend them.
Snorkel kits or snorkeling your ATV may be illegal in some states. I think for the most part it’s allowed on private property either way. But some states don’t allow snorkeled machines on public land.
Check your local laws before riding any modified machines on public land.
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ATV Club
December 27, 2013
It turns out that not so much is needed to radically increase the cross-country ability of an ATV.
.. The main ways to increase cross-country ability are associated with an increase in the capabilities of movers. The easiest thing is to install large wheels.
The limiters here are the parameters of the transmission and suspension and the center of gravity rising higher and higher. Another way to create a "tank" is to use tracks. But this is also not a panacea: it’s difficult, and you won’t get far on them. But there is another option that allows you to easily and simply turn the "standard" into a "super all-terrain vehicle." It is enough to supplement its wheels with J-Wheelz expanders. According to their manufacturer, the ATV will not only ride through the swamps without falling through, but will also learn to swim. The device so far has no analogues - at least, they are unknown to us. So it was necessary to check its merits without comparison with competitors.
The products turned out to be very similar to plastic buckets.
Through special transitional studs, they are attached to the wheels. Then foam inserts are inserted into them and fixed with rubber bands. The expander is smaller in diameter than the wheel, so it does not work when driving on asphalt and hard ground. But as soon as you find yourself in a swamp or just fall into a rut, he immediately comes to the rescue. The quadric really does not fail! Moreover, the blades outside the expanders cling to the soil and row. However, we were most interested in the "waterfowl" abilities of the J-Wheelz.
Thanks to the paddles on the extensions you can move even on very soft ground
For a risky test, we took a large utility ATV, equipped with heavy protections (including the entire bottom), winch and headlights. It took several minutes to screw on the expanders, and we headed to the lake ... It's amazing, but the quadric floated, swaying on the waves along with a rather big pilot. Here are the buckets for you!
ATV.
J-Wheelz increase quad stability to incredible limits
Bonus. The "buckets" have another significant advantage - they do not allow you to fall into a rut
Our ATV was not equipped with a snorkel, so the rider had to leave the "captain's bridge" soon so that the engine would not take a sip of water. And so it would be possible to swim and swim, rowing "oars". But even in this configuration, you can easily transport the equipment by swimming across the ford or drag it across the pond on a cable. And when driving on a dry coast, the expanders do not really interfere. If you do not climb frankly narrow forest paths, then you can ride without removing them. The material from which they are made is very durable. I personally hit with a sledgehammer - I simulated shock loads at the declared minus 30 degrees: at least where it cracked!
Each extension only weighs approx. 3 kg. A set of four J-Wheelz gives approximately 140 kg of additional buoyancy.
Fits any 24-27" tire with standard 4-wheel bolt pattern. The flexible rubberized blades are available in two sizes and are easily replaced or removed when the expander is removed from the machine. For the front wheels, less stiff paddles are supplied as standard to keep the steering stable without hitting the mudguards. The rear wheels use stiffer paddles for maximum traction.
Mount. Wheel extensions can be installed on any ATV or UTV
Inserts inside. The foam adds buoyancy and keeps water out. All construction is wear and puncture resistant
Like a steamboat. Wheel widener blades are available in two different sizes and are easily replaceable
Produced by Rennesport Imports,
www.j-wheelz.ru, and tested with the assistance of Kvadropark, kvadropark.ru
Part VII. Teriberka Travels Contents
ATV is a four-wheeled vehicle that tackles the toughest terrain with ease, from various ground obstacles (including mud and snow) to water surfaces.
ATV on water
Particularly noteworthy is how easily and quickly the ATV moves through the water. This is achieved through:
Thanks to all these quality characteristics, the ATV will pass in any place, including on water. Of course, we are not talking about significant depth, because for this there is such a special device as a hydroquad bike, which began to be produced in the USA.
jet ski
It is he who is not only the most airtight at any depth, but is also capable of speeds up to 70 km. in hour.
Ability to swim
However, standard "ground" ATVs can swim, and it's quite easy to arrange this. It is only necessary to attach a kind of floats, which are PVC parts that adapt to the wheels.
floats for ATV wheels
It is quite possible to make them on your own, for this you will need:
To increase stability, you can also use special inflatable balloons attached to the footrests of the device. All this will enable the ATV to move through the water as quickly and without problems.
ATV cylinders
Unique cross-country ability is also ensured by a comfortable fit, which makes it possible to stay in the ATV almost around the clock. In addition, given:
any ATV is not very stable and prone to all sorts of flips on the water. In this connection, before you start actively driving this vehicle, you should learn that in the process of driving an ATV you will need to:
So, in order to successfully cross a small hill on the water, the body of the body should be moved back.
This is done so that the front wheels do not hit the ledge, which very often provokes a flight over the steering axle.
After that, as the ATV overcomes water obstacles:
These rules must be remembered by those who intend to move a lot and often on water surfaces.
snorkel on ATV
However, without such additional equipment as snorkels, moving through the water will be quite problematic. Because it is he who protects the engine and other important parts from water ingress.
A relatively shallow ford (we are talking about a depth of up to 50 cm) any ATV overcomes without problems, almost without noticing it.
