Snorkel Help
The 05 Rubi is a tricky bike to snorkel. I went with the Triangle kit mainly for the metal bracket that they give to you to secure the snorkel to your front rack. If you are building one, you will need to come out of the airbox with 1.5 inch pipe. The way that mine is along the side of the engine it goes up to two inch pipe. It uses a rubber coupling available at ACE Hardware that goes from 1.5 to 2 inch and uses hose clamps to secure it to the pipes. You will have to run it along the right side of the bike for two reasons. 1. The airbox inlet is angled to this side of the bike. 2. The head pipe runs along the other side and would create heat issues in my opinion. The only down side of running the piping along the right side is that it will be in the way of your oil dipstick and filler cap. A little creativeness in your design could fix that easily. Run you pipe along the engine into the front right fenderwell. You will have to remove the black plastic that covers the engine and attaches with the little push clips to the front fender. You wont be able to put this back on. You may also need to trim the plastis piece along where the 1.5 inch pipe comes from the airbox. It is the piece that has the Rubicon sticker on it. You will have to remove the plastic piece of the inner fender as well, then trim it to allow the snorkel pipe to pass through it. Be carefull on this step because if you take too much of it off it will lose its integrity. Next decide where you want to come through the plastics and cut. you can secure the pipe by using a 2inch rubber coupling and making it to where it fits really tight into the hole you cut into your plastics. Once secured with the clamps to the pipe it will hold the riser pipe in place. Next cut you a riser pipe and put the desired top on it, whether it be a 90 degree elbow or what not. Run your vent lines which are located on the left and right upper frame rails that are just below and in front of the top headlight up your snorkel or you can even tie them into the snorkel. You can do this for the drum brake, fan vent, and differentials. You will have to run your carb vent lines up to your headlight pod. After doing this you should be good to go. Any questions, just ask. Good Luck, Keep us updated.
- Jacob
