Just saw this on YouTube. Can our defender 2 do this? Too excessive? Are these diesel discovery or gas powered? If we seal our raised intake will it take this beating. Impressive!

 

I wouldn't attempt it unless you had an actual snorkel that is all the way to the intake manifold. The raised air intake isn't water tight.

 

well that is one way to clean your underside of the car!!! :-)

 

Possibly but the snorkel is irrelevant in this case. 3ft is ok but even with the snorkel, you'd be managing the entire engine & drive train, Personally, I'd give it 24hrs and try again the next day ...a hydro locked engine will write off a Defender regardless of age/model.

If you tried that with the current D110/D90 the system would freak out on wade sensing and say get the F back out beyond 3ft. Even with a snorkel.

 

Yes it might run once — during this crisis on the video.

but, his diffs and trans are now filled with water; his electronics shot and his engine intake flooded.

One could toughen the Defender to go deeper than what is allowed as is from the factory - the next step would be to add pressure equalization seal vents on the differentials.

The OEM snorkel is primarily about stopping sand and dust ingestion , not water.

 

In the Jeep world we just extended the vents with a piece of tubing up to however high we needed for the depth of water we anticipated. Is that not what you do for LRs?

ARB Diff vent extension kit

 

yes, same idea.

I have never waterproofed a JLR product -- maybe some day?

 

"Hold my beer" Leyland Brothers probably

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