Looking for flexible tubing - snorkel question

Submitted: Friday, Dec 23, 2005 at 22:57

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NotExcessive

I wonder if anyone out there can tell me where I might be able to find the kind of flexible plastic tubing that's used in snorkel installations. I've just fitted a Safari snorkel to my GQ but because of the modifications I've made inside the engine bay, the snorkel installation ends behind the headlight since the standard Safari plumbing kit won't work out, and now I have to connect that point to the air cleaner housing. What I'm after is that large-diameter accordion type tubing, similar to what the vehicle was fitted with in the first place.

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Reply By: Wayne (NSW) - Friday, Dec 23, 2005 at 23:06

Friday, Dec 23, 2005 at 23:06

Safari have the tubing that you want, go to the 4WD shop that you got the snorkel from and ask them to order a length for you. It will not be cheap but they will have it. The snorkel for a BJ 40 required about 2mts of the tubing.

Wayne

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Follow Up By: Kiwi Kia - Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 07:17

Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 07:17

If you are looking for a short bit then look at what other vehicles normally use, some vehicles have a fairly long concertina pipe running around the engine bay. If you find one that has similar pipe then you could perhaps go to a wreckers yard.

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Reply By: Truckster (Vic) - Friday, Dec 23, 2005 at 23:43

Friday, Dec 23, 2005 at 23:43

that the stuff you mean?
I got mine from Purple Pig.. www.purplepig.com.au

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Follow Up By: NotExcessive - Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:18

Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:18

Exactly - and funnily enough, the section I need is precisely the section you have there - from the snorkel entry point, around the battery box I just fitted, and connect to the original near the corner of the battery.

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Reply By: Wok - Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 07:24

Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 07:24

Got mine from Tony Powell Hose Supplies [Brisbane] Actually made for the industrial dust-machines used in wood-working factories etc. Its concertina with very tough membrane [not rubber],varies diameters....just dear [from memory!]

eng

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Reply By: Peter 2 - Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:46

Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:46

Places that sell truck air cleaners and fittings will also have it.

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Reply By: Member - Phil G (SA) - Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:53

Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:53

Autobahn stocks it for the doof-doofs. Costs an arm and a leg, and comes in a range of colours :-))

My son got some from BL Shipway in Adelaide (hose company).

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Reply By: Barnesy - Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 10:09

Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 10:09

Diesel Exhausts at Wingfield in Adelaide stock this tubing.
Barnesy

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Reply By: Member - Omaroo (NSW) - Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 11:29

Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 11:29

Repco - $30-something dollars.

Excuse the airhorns and lack of dual battery - this is after I installed my snorkel, but before I started morphing the under-bonnet area into my own after purchase.

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Follow Up By: NotExcessive - Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 22:20

Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 22:20

Repco? Cool - in that case I'll try the Coffs Harbour store next week. My local store here in Sydney doesn't know what "air intake hose" is. I found exactly what I need to get at Pirtek this morning, but all they had was a single 300mm offcut, and nothing else in stock.

Aaaarrggghh.

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Reply By: Big Woody - Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 22:43

Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 at 22:43

I saw it in Supercheap Auto's today.
Variety of colours available and from memory it came in lengths about 4ft for about $35.00

regards,
Brett

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Reply By: Member - Bradley- Sunday, Dec 25, 2005 at 17:36

Sunday, Dec 25, 2005 at 17:36

the product you want and the one trucky has in his photo, is called TPRDS tube made by Nylex, heat resistant with a stainless spring wire. can be had in heaps of diameters to suit any job.

Purple pig have heaps of it, buy by the metre, or anywhere that stocks nylex industrial tube products.

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