TD42 Prefilters & Snorkels

[MKPatrolGuy]

I'm fitting a snorkle to my TD42 turbo Mav and I'm debating wether to ditch the prefilter housing and just run tubing in its place or should I keep the prefilter?

Also this is my tourer, should I go with a Safari snorkle (Easy to get a hold of most places if I bust it. Or go with a tubular snorkle with rubber bends (Better flow)?

Thoughts?

Cheers

[jtraf]

Had a safari turbo fitted during the week and I thought the precleaner would be history. They fitted up another custom pipe and it all looks factory.

The Patrol is daily driver for wife and kids and holiday tourer so I will keep the precleaner for the moment.

Will ditch it down the track if and when I decide to remove the muffler from the exhaust....

James

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I'm fitting a snorkle to my TD42 turbo Mav and I'm debating wether to ditch the prefilter housing and just run tubing in its place or should I keep the prefilter?

Piss off the precleaner. Rip it off, and look at the diameter of the outlet on the bottom of the box, its about 1/4 the size of the inlet.

But then again if its a tourer, I'd try and figure out a way to refit it, with a bigger outlet. If your doing outback etc, you want as much filter as you can get.

youve seen teh photo I've posted up before on this aint yer

[MKPatrolGuy]

I'm fitting a snorkle to my TD42 turbo Mav and I'm debating wether to ditch the prefilter housing and just run tubing in its place or should I keep the prefilter?

Piss off the precleaner. Rip it off, and look at the diameter of the outlet on the bottom of the box, its about 1/4 the size of the inlet.

But then again if its a tourer, I'd try and figure out a way to refit it, with a bigger outlet. If your doing outback etc, you want as much filter as you can get.

youve seen teh photo I've posted up before on this aint yer

I think I'll remove it for now, I'm going to get a 10" (I think) Cyclone prefilter thing for the top of the snorkle.

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I think I'll remove it for now, I'm going to get a 10" (I think) Cyclone prefilter thing for the top of the snorkle.

Got the large donaldson in the shed. They work well. But are heavy, not sure how the plastic would go with that weight on it over masses of corrigations.

[BOB_1]

Do you guys class that thing behind the passenger headlight that the snorkle connects to as a prefilter? or just an air slowerdownerer (nice english that) that tries to keep the bugs out of the air cleaner.

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Do you guys class that thing behind the passenger headlight that the snorkle connects to as a prefilter?

precleaner.

[pete's GQ]

Had a look at getting a donaldson top spin precleaner for the safari snorkel, after doing a bit of research and talking to a filter specilast in sydney i steered away from it as it had some reported failures and high pitch noises, after some more research I have gone with a Sy-clone, it seemed to be the best design and it is a standard fit to all large CAT engines now. Took a while to find out if it would suit a 4.2td patrol with a snorkel. Wasnt a problem as they sell adaptors to suit. Just got to wait for it to arrive.

[sidewayz]

i ditched my precleaner ages ago.

then i came across those unifilter washable snorkel covers on ebay. but now i cant find the fukign things again....

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Had a look at getting a donaldson top spin precleaner for the safari snorkel, after doing a bit of research and talking to a filter specilast in sydney i steered away from it as it had some reported failures and high pitch noises,.

was never a problem on my GQ, the new owner has just done a central aust trip with it again, and its been no problem.

[kane077]

Unifilter do a "sock" type filter that goes inside the top of the snorkel. I have one and it works a treat. Keeps the main filter heaps cleaner.

[MKPatrolGuy]

Far out! Talk about a dig, I posted this over 3 years ago. Just in case anyone was worried about my snorkle choice. I got the Safari and ditched the precleaner, still using the normal ram head and a unifilter prefilter if it is really dusty.

Dave