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Old 03-20-2011, 07:04 PM
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so i have a little money to spend on the jeep and am stuck between two different mod routs, i can either....

change my stock rubicon shocks with adptors for rancho 9000 or ome (not lt)

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add a 1 inch spacer in the front to cut the rake, add aev snorkel, quadratech floor mats and a rugged ridge licence plate holder

what would u do?

i dont hit that much water i really just want the snorekl for the cold air and as a insurance policy
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Route 2. Rubi shocks are fine.
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route 2 its more usefull
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Number 2 much much more useful
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2 it is then.
how much should i be paying to get the snorkel installed?
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Originally Posted by jtjk
2 it is then.
how much should i be paying to get the snorkel installed?
I'm curious too .... Price for a snorkel
What's a good brand AND labour cost$$
Thx
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Originally Posted by robsjeep9
I'm curious too .... Price for a snorkel
What's a good brand AND labour cost$$
Thx
the main brands to look at are AEV, ARB, Violant, and another that iv forgotten the name of - sure someone will chime in on it. Rugged ridge is also in the process of developing on that does not require any hood cutting - there is a thread on it floating around in the forum.
im going with the aev.
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Originally Posted by jtjk
how much should i be paying to get the snorkel installed?
You should do it yourself. It's super easy to do after you cut the first hole.

Around here labor is about $100 an hour, so they would charge $200-300+ for it.

For brands there's a few choices... AEV, Violant, River Raider (Just came out with their 2nd snorkel similar to the military H1 Hummers) and Rugged Ridge is in the works of their own snorkel.
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Originally Posted by Abacabb
You should do it yourself. It's super easy to do after you cut the first hole.

Around here labor is about $100 an hour, so they would charge $200-300+ for it.

For brands there's a few choices... AEV, Violant, River Raider (Just came out with their 2nd snorkel similar to the military H1 Hummers) and Rugged Ridge is in the works of their own snorkel.
I really like the look of the River Raider Snorkel
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Originally Posted by matt852
I really like the look of the River Raider Snorkel
i also like the rr, do u know if there are any pictures of the exepdition style filter floating around the forum


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