Tuesday, Jul 30, 2002 at 00:00
Werner, as you correctly pointed out, my original set-up is as per your description i.e. air filter housing (cylindrical pressed steel unit) running east west directly behind the passenger head light and the main battery on the opposite side, behind the driver's headlight.
I then moved the steel air filter housing into a north south axis, parrallel with the engine and close to the firewall. This is where the difficulty comes into the modification. Both the air inlet and outlet pipes were cut, repositioned and welded in place. The air inlet pipe was measured, cut and shortened so as to line up directly with the
snorkel connection which comes through the body and into the engine compartment above the leaft front wheel. The air hose supplied with the
snorkel kit connects straight onto the new air inlet pipe (no extra bends, etc required).
The air filter housing discharge pipe was also modified so as to line up almost directly with the original intake manifold arrangement. The existing rubber pipe which connects the existing air filter housing and the manifold was cut shorter (~20cm total length) and now connects the two perfectly.
Underneath the original air filter housing is a flat plate already spotwelded onto the body for a second battery position. I welded up a larger frame and positioned this ontop of this plate with the battery now sitting very close to the radiator top up water bottle. This top up bottle is secured with a 8mm bolt to the grill cross member and slightly to the left of this 8mm bolt is a threaded bolt hole which I've used to secure a battery bracket.
The complete system now consists of a second battery positioned east west directly behind the headlight, the air filter housing positioned north south between the engine and body panel (wheel panel) with the rear of the housing close to the fuel filter which is positioned on the firewall.
To access the air filter element the second battery must be removed so that the three clips and double cover can be removed.
Werner it probably sounds complicated but once I got the measurements and alignment done it was pretty straight forward. It's now a pretty compact arrangement with the added bonus of not loosing any space in the
well body where most auxillary batteries are fitted as
well as not having to run long battery cables between the two units.
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