Recommend a winter snorkel check...

Gave the surf a major service on Saturday, all the usual things to be done and a couple of extras on the list like fixing blown tail lights etc.
I also had a vibration I'd noticed where the snorkel entered the body. It's been there a while now but I just figured the snorkel was rattling on the body from the induction vibration.

So I finish of everything else and figured I'd have a closer look at the snorkel. While I've got my nose stuck down there I could feel air blowing accross it.
Hmmmmm.... Not good.
So I pull off the plastic wheel arch and have a peak up between the quarter pannel and the engine bay.
Turns out The hose clamp that holds the the rubber hose to the air box onto the plastic end of the snorkel was totally loose and bouncing around on the hose!
So I tightened it up and put some siliocone over the screw so it won't rattle loose.

Suff knows how long it's been that way, but I would recommend comming into winter that everyone has a little check of all your snorkel fittings, could have been a very expensive "whoopsie" had we done a deepish water crossing with it like that.... And thanks to the WA Water Authority it's quite likley a deep water crossing is in the near future just driving down the freeway!!LOL