AIS Filter System Fitment

Steve & Adrian,

You are both right in what you say and your thoughts have already past through my mind. I have some thoughts and I will look at them when I am back home and give them to a fabricator, performance mod centre or even a exhaust fitter like the one I am using for my upgrade exhaust.

I do not think it is a hard problem to overcome as all that is needed is a pipe of some description to go from the snorkle that is cut through the guard to the air filter box.

As you know all they do when fitting a snorkle is cut the hole through the guard, block the hole off into the filter box from where the air enters from the front of the vehicle with a plate and seal it with silocone and then cut a new hole into the original filter box where the snorkle enters and seal that also.

The way I see around it is to fit the AIS filter box and use the same plate they used to seal of the original opening from the old filter box and seal it with silocone, thats the easy part.

Next locate a suitable piece of large enough diametre radiator hose like you said Steve or I have seen ribbed large diametre rubber tubing around. I will visit truck outlets and see what they have, maybe a bend from a truck big rig air filter system, the ones you see on the sides of the cab, there is bound to be something in the big rig truck suppliers.

Depending on the size of the snorkle outlet through the guard use stainless steel radiator clamps to secure the hose to the snorkle outlet and seal with silocone. The problem here is that the snorkle outlet, I think is oval not round.

Now in the filter box cut the hole in it where the piping will go and have a plate made up that bolts on inside of the filter box similar as they do with where the snorkle enters the original air box, but instead have a sleeve about 2" long fitted to this plate that slides through from the inside of the filter box and protrudes through to where I slide the new piping onto and secure it with another stainless steel radiator clamp and seal it all with silocone, a bit like how radiator hoses fit to the radiator.

Hey presto it done, all sounds good in therory dosn't it.

Pity you can't get snorkles made for the opposite side of vehicles as it always has been a thing with me to fit a snorkle to both left and right side of the vehicle and have two air supplies going to the air filter. I have even asked the people at the powerstroke shop in the USA where I purchased my AIS system if the AIS system was compatible to having a snorkle fitted and the response was, you bloody aussies and snorkles we don't have them here so can't help, so I decided to get it anyway because the cost was half landed on my door as to what you can buy them here for.

These systems are really a Donaldson system who have been around for a long time and it is the same system that they use on the Abraham tanks over here in all the dust and dirt as you would know by the photos of the dust storm I sent you Steve.

If i can't work it out before I pick up the BT Steve and Adrian we might have to get together when I come over a design something, as you say the R & D continues.

Thanks for the response.

Cheers
Stewart