Dave's la(te)st buggy build...

It will need to have Yellow wheels, Yellow mudguards, and a Yellow steering wheel. Also, you'll have to wear some Yellow clothes and a Yellow Hat/Helmet and Yellow gloves and get a Yellow Winch Rope .... and don't forget to wear clean Yellow undies.

Well that's me caught up then. Haven't looked for a while so I got to binge read a few pages worth.

Some very nice work there dave, looking forward to more updates

maverick wrote: It will need to have Yellow wheels, Yellow mudguards, and a Yellow steering wheel. Also, you'll have to wear some Yellow clothes and a Yellow Hat/Helmet and Yellow gloves and get a Yellow Winch Rope .... and don't forget to wear clean Yellow undies.

That's great, cheers! I now have a mental image of Dave beetling round Wales in a Banana Man costume! Scarred for life.

:lol: LOL

Back at Buggy HQ though...

I ran out of welding gas on Sunday, so went out to get a new bottle yesterday, Tuesday... Day off today so I was planning on welding up everything on the rear... Nine o'clock came and I said to the missus I was off to self-isolate in the garage for the day, and she said she thought I was going to have a proper day off, which I had said I could do with... But I went home, put my scruffs on, found our eldest daughter working in my study which is on top of my garage... So, I thought I'd better keep the peace and have a quiet day... So I did a couple of maintenance jobs in the shop and then went out to the garage and thought, "what can I do quite quietly" ?...



So I thought I'd have a look at the snorkel... I'm still waiting for the 2.5" bent steel (exhaust) tube to arrive, but most of the other parts are here... 2.5" ID convoluted hose, a Southdown (Defender) snorkel top, jubilee clips and a K&N air filter...



My first job whenever I fit a snorkel... block the drain hole in the air box! :ohmy:



Next, I worked out the angle the hose needed to leave the air box, and fitted a drainpipe elbow into it, mastic'ed well, and drilled and bolted four times...



I then spent a considerable time working out how to make the brackets to support the air box and the main fuse box... remembering the wings have been removed and the bonnet / engine bay narrowed to make it more buggy-like... so it's a bit of a squeeze!



All in though! But... it doesn't leave any room for a battery So it's either locate the battery on the other side, or run with just the big winch battery in the rear... still thinking about all this...

The hose is just loose at the moment... I need the bent metal 2.5" tube yet to cut a small piece off to go in the air box outlet to reduce it down so that it fits inside the convoluted hose...



Under the wingtop... you can see the tabs bolted to the underside of the "bent" box section that makes the edge of the engine bay...

I still need to make a bracket for the charcoal filter (?) thing too...

Good timing!...



I wonder what it is?

Lovely work Dave,

Re the airbox drain, have you considered using a vernay valve, so that you retain drainage capability, without the possibility of flooding getting in at that point?

Paul