Renedave
Member
Hey folks,
Saturday was a bad day for a fellow KJ'er, I'm afraid. Up at Rausch Creek, PA I was pretty happy to see another Liberty Renegade pull into the staging area - all set up with Frankenlift, ARB front bumper, 245/75 MT/Rs, etc. Unfortunately mid-afternoon I passed him completely hydrolocked after having been pulled out of Lake Christy.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=12525824
Looking at the video and having seen the damage, it looks like water came in between the hood and grill and was sucked right into the intake like a shop vacuum. Yeah, it was boneheaded of him to use the skinny petal to try to shoot his way though, but looking at the design of the splashguard on the intake I'm not surprised this happened. The splashguard is obviously designed for the standard Liberty hood that follows the contour of the headlight, and is too low toward the center of the engine compartment to block water coming in under the flat Renegade hood. If you open the hood and look at the intake from just over the grill it's a straight shot in! So... before I go off pulling the intake off my Renny and try to fab up my own splash guard (possibly just modifying the stock one with assistance of a heat gun) has anyone come up with a better air intake for reducing the possibility of water ingestion?
Saturday was a bad day for a fellow KJ'er, I'm afraid. Up at Rausch Creek, PA I was pretty happy to see another Liberty Renegade pull into the staging area - all set up with Frankenlift, ARB front bumper, 245/75 MT/Rs, etc. Unfortunately mid-afternoon I passed him completely hydrolocked after having been pulled out of Lake Christy.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=12525824
Looking at the video and having seen the damage, it looks like water came in between the hood and grill and was sucked right into the intake like a shop vacuum. Yeah, it was boneheaded of him to use the skinny petal to try to shoot his way though, but looking at the design of the splashguard on the intake I'm not surprised this happened. The splashguard is obviously designed for the standard Liberty hood that follows the contour of the headlight, and is too low toward the center of the engine compartment to block water coming in under the flat Renegade hood. If you open the hood and look at the intake from just over the grill it's a straight shot in! So... before I go off pulling the intake off my Renny and try to fab up my own splash guard (possibly just modifying the stock one with assistance of a heat gun) has anyone come up with a better air intake for reducing the possibility of water ingestion?