Making my 3l petrol more water resistant!

Hello everyone, newbie pearly here.

Just bought 3.0 Rx petrol and wanted to seek advice on making it more resilient for water crossings. I have several queries.....
1) is it worth adding a snorkel - is the ignition system robust enough for a up to the grill creek crossing?
2) should I just go for a lift ?
3) if I do lift, any advice on springs and body lifts that might suit the old girl? I will use it every day for work so not too extreme but maybe greater than 2" ?.
4) I was thinking maybe of adding some 33 muddies - am I mad? Will the ole girl struggle too much? And what lift would I need to keep clear of foiling the bodywork?
5) if I do get new tyres, what width will fit on the standard ( skinny ) rim?

Lots of questions and I'm guessing that some May have already been asked but aNy advice would be appreciated or even a direct to a previous post or technical spec.

Many thanks pearly

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Originally Posted by Pearly

Hello everyone, newbie pearly here.

Just bought 3.0 Rx petrol and wanted to seek advice on making it more resilient for water crossings. I have several queries.....
1) is it worth adding a snorkel - is the ignition system robust enough for a up to the grill creek crossing?
2) should I just go for a lift ?
3) if I do lift, any advice on springs and body lifts that might suit the old girl? I will use it every day for work so not too extreme but maybe greater than 2" ?.
4) I was thinking maybe of adding some 33 muddies - am I mad? Will the ole girl struggle too much? And what lift would I need to keep clear of foiling the bodywork?
5) if I do get new tyres, what width will fit on the standard ( skinny ) rim?

Lots of questions and I'm guessing that some May have already been asked but aNy advice would be appreciated or even a direct to a previous post or technical spec.

Many thanks pearly

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Hopefully others can add to the questions but...

1) yes your car is more then capable of going into crossings where a snorkel is justified. It's also piece of mind and cleaner air into your engine. Must have.

2) get a lift as well for the next questions

3) daily driver doing moderate 4wding I assume. Just get a 2" suspension, personally I would not get a body lift. Spend money on a quality supplier such as old man emu.

4) 33" lift on your new 2" suspension lift will be fine. Get you pretty much everywhere you want to go and best of all it's legal and you won't need to stress on the road to work each day.

UI've got 4.2 petrol and still don't have a snorkel for it. I don't readily do water crossings but have done on the odd occasion with water coming over the top of the bonnet... Just take it easy and don't go crazy and you should be ok as long as you don't get to much water going down your air-intake.
In saying that though, I do have a 2in suspension lift and run 33x12.50x15 rubber. I also give the dizzy and plugs a liberal spray of WD40 to help try and disperse any water.
If you are regularly going to be doing water crossings, then a snorkel would be advisable.

When you say skinny rims, how wide are they?

Thanks good advice.

Thanks good advice. Knocked out by the replies and welcome on day one of joining

Wrt rims I will take a look when I pick up on Friday many thanks

p.s how do you post what vehicle you have on the bottom of the message ... ? I must gave missed that bit in the tutorial ... Bulls ( or is it fools? ) rush in and all that :)

G,day, Pearly, and welcome to the forum. Its always good to have another fellow RB30 owner aboard.

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I have had my Old Trol on tracks where the water has just started to flow over the bonnet. I made sure that the passenger side was on the high side of the ruts.

Afterwards I checked the intake and found dry muddy splashes in the dust separator, so I am currently saving for a snorkel. Other than that, the RB30 ran fine.

As there is no seal between the Harmonic balancer and timing belt, I also opened the cover and found evidence that a bit of water had entered and was sprayed around. I am going to pressurise the cover with 1-2 psi (I have an on- board compressor) to hopefully prevent water ingress.

A snorkel is good insurance for water ingress during water crossings and great for dusty convoy work where you grab clean air from up high
Petrol are a bit kinder than diesel on water crossing at least you can remove the plugs and crank out the water.
33" tyres minimum rim size 15 x 8 or go 285 75 16.
2" lift is more than adequate to go places.
I friend of mine has an air horn compressor pressurizing his dizzy when crossing rivers only need a few psi.
I had the same set up on my HEI dizzy on my last 4x4 worked a treat

That's thinking ! Will maybe try that a cheap first option re: pressurisation. Many thanks

There was a spray product that is supposed waterproof the dissy cap, mentioned on another thread.

Just bought a six pack of them!