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Took the new van out for a go offroading at Salisbury.

Really impressed how it performed, just a few mishaps

Got towed out of the mud pit, Water got sucked through to the filter, water in the dizzy

That`ll teach us not to do that one again.

All in all a great day

Great pics, nice to see a tidy van.

Simon.

jester1467 wrote: Water got sucked through to the filter, water in the dizzy

Exactly the same thing happend to me in exactly the same place last year in the doka

jed

Marigold glove ???

I would have to be a bigun to get over the air filter box too

jed

Jed, have said this before but there are two holes in air filter intake, one is a drain hole in the base of the filter box, the other is at the bottom of the snorkel pipe in the base of the elbow, its designed to let any slight ingress of rain water out before it gets to the filter but was not designed to cope with loons like us who purposefully try floating our vans!

jed the spread wrote:I would have to be a bigun to get over the air filter box too

jed

this missing air in take pipe had something to do with it i think i managed to get through it

neil

rogerg-wagon wrote:Jed, have said this before but there are two holes in air filter intake, one is a drain hole in the base of the filter box, the other is at the bottom of the snorkel pipe in the base of the elbow, its designed to let any slight ingress of rain water out before it gets to the filter but was not designed to cope with loons like us who purposefully try floating our vans!

I did take in what you told me just after Roger, hope you dont think i wasnt taking in your sound advice, I was just ribbing Andrew I did a couple of things since and was told about a couple more top tips also. Not that the doka will be doing much off roading now a days.

jed

I do understand the "marigold glove" over the dizzy

Where does the air inlet take in air to allow it to fill with water
You`ll have to forgive me I`m an "air cooled" convert that has come over to "the dark side"

More to the point how to get over it?

jed the spread wrote:I did take in what you told me just after Roger, hope you dont think i wasnt taking in your sound advice, I was just ribbing Andrew I did a couple of things since and was told about a couple more top tips also.

Jed what are these "top tips" that you are keeping close to your chest? Do we need to cross your palm with silver for such info, we wont tell anyone.....honest

Your tip from Germany I will take to the grave

jester1467 wrote: Your tip from Germany I will take to the grave

Which one was that ?

The two small holes are one in the bottom of the filter box,[ remove the filter to see it ] and also look behind the plastic cover where the air feed pipe comes down into the engine bay, very difficult to see as this as its rivetted in but first remove the tail lght on the offside rear, if you can see the plastic elbow,this is where there is a second hole on the underside, hope this helps.
Roger