Water crossings

Somewhere in the owners manual will be the fording depth for your little zook, thats a good place to start.
As for diffs etc, fit breather's, they are cheap insurance.
If you want to play boat :), then fit a snorkel.

meow.

rick.

When I was working at at Toyota dealership (as a mechanic), I used to see heaps of Cruisers with breather extentions. All they were was some rubber hose (fuel or vacuum hose) with a plastic fuel filter fitted to the end. (The $4.50 cheapies you get from your local auto parts store). These were cable tied high up on the vehicle. Depends how deep you want to go.
Some people even had them strapped to the roof racks! A bit overboard me thinx!
Most put them against the firewall up high.
Engine snorkle.......definatley!!!!
Hope this helps.
Fab.

Adding breathers helps but that water will still make its way in.

After every High Country trip I did in the old Lux I always managed to get the water in the diffs, trans case, I had breathers all over it. The car did spend a good amount of time in the drink though. Those rivers can be deep at times :-)

I have grown up a little now and stay out of the water if possible, water means work :-)

Diff and transfer case breather extensions go a long way towards keeping the water out. You should also let your vehicle cool down prior to a dip, as the contraction of hot oil as it cools can suck air past seals.

Everyone remembers the diffs, Carbies etc but forget about the exhaust. No problem if you don't stall the engine part way across - if you do so, then all the snorkels, breathers etc are useless. A friend has an extension made up which fits on the end of his tail pipe - looks like an end from an exhaust jack - temporary fits it onto the back of the vehicle and away he goes - after crossing takes in off and he's on his way ! I am looking at making the same sort of thing !

One more point to consider - if you're intending to ford anything moderately deep that has a bit of current I would be pretty careful! I don't reckon it'd take much to float a Jimny. Relatively new vehicle with good seals weighing in at a whopping 1060kg (I think???) would float good! ;-)

Have fun

Scoey!

Deepest I drove through (and this is why I asked the question cos had to then drain the transfer case as it had 1L of water in it), was bonnet height (the engine air intake in the jimny is behind the headlight so is pretty high), haha but with the bow wave came up on the windscreen.

Surprisingly, the car had no water inside it or anything so obviously well sealed, but it did seem to float a little in the deepest section of the creek.. haha, so year 1 tonne is not that heavy ;-).

Anyway, on the transfer case its got a little button type thing, so do I remove the button before fitting the extension or just put the extension over it? - The button seems to act like a bit of a seal?

cheers

zook