Wading Grill Muff/Cover

[Lazy-Ferret]

Has anyone made, or purchased a Wading Muff for a Terrano?

After blocking up my Radiator last year, I wanted to look at a way of protecting it when going through deep dirty water, but as I also have Aircon, with the electric fan on the front of it, it does not look like it will be an easy task.

So before I re-invent the wheel, has anyone else done it?

 

[Madmark]

I keep looking at this but hoping not such of a prob as done away with viscous fan. as I found that just sucked all crap all the time. Now I've got electric fan I'm hoping that'll help. But still think a rad cover is good idea. I have access to lots of hessian which is about the only thing thats breathable but strong. And when wet will work like a good air filter and keep rad free but would wanna be about six inches infront of rad

 

[makeitfit]

I think you're looking at the wrong end of the telescope :augie
Muddy yucky water will still get up there anyway I reckon, so, why not do the old fire extinguisher mod.
You just need an old skool f/ext . Modify the top to take a tyre valve. Then fill to about one third volume with water. Presurise the tank from your compressor or garage tyre pump.
Then at home time give your nether regions a jolly good squirt :sly
It's not a high pressure jet so wont fold your fins over and cheap as chips to do :clap

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

I keep looking at this but hoping not such of a prob as done away with viscous fan. as I found that just sucked all crap all the time. Now I've got electric fan I'm hoping that'll help. But still think a rad cover is good idea. I have access to lots of hessian which is about the only thing thats breathable but strong. And when wet will work like a good air filter and keep rad free but would wanna be about six inches infront of rad

I wondered if I could put a couple of "U" channels, one each side, and slide a Hessian covered frame between them, just behind the slam panel, but it would be well within 6" of the rad. Other than that, it would need to be something on the outside, but that would be harder as you have the grill, then the slots in the bumper, and then the under grill to contend with.

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

I think you're looking at the wrong end of the telescope :augie
Muddy yucky water will still get up there anyway I reckon, so, why not do the old fire extinguisher mod.
You just need an old skool f/ext . Modify the top to take a tyre valve. Then fill to about one third volume with water. Presurise the tank from your compressor or garage tyre pump.
Then at home time give your nether regions a jolly good squirt :sly
It's not a high pressure jet so wont fold your fins over and cheap as chips to do :clap

Last year, I got a bit of Ally pipe, bent the end at 90 degrees and flattened it to make a soft spray bar, then attached it to the garden hose, so I could get to the whole radiator from the top, just by undoing the screws and easing the cowling back, but whether I did it too late, as the mud had hardened or it was just not powerful enough, it did not seem to clear it out properly and the car was still over heating when towing the caravan, which it never did before the muddy water, or since the new rad.

What about one of those pump up garden sprayers, would that work like the fire extinguisher?

 

[makeitfit]

I guess I have more room round mine to get in there and demud.
Garden spray thingy would be a hand challenge :lol I cant see any benefit over f/ex other than not needing to pressurise .

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

I guess I have more room round mine to get in there and demud.
Garden spray thingy would be a hand challenge :lol I cant see any benefit over f/ex other than not needing to pressurise .

I was thinking the garden sprayer, like the ones they use for weed killer that have the long neck on a length of tube. Like this...


I'll have to look out for an old fire extinguisher, not something I have come across in my travels, or more likely noticed anyway.

 

[makeitfit]

ah yes I see . Never used one so no idea how much oomph, but I think the clue is in the name :augie

 

[Fez_uk]

Garden sprayer should work well

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

Garden sprayer should work well

Cheers

Bit scared to just dive in, as I am not sure how much pressure it takes to bend the fins over. Seems more like you need quantity of water rather than the pressure of it, and they do those sprayers in 25 Litre. Mind you, it would just be easier to take the smaller one, and re-fill it if needed.

What sort of pressure do you take the fire extinguishers up to?

 

[makeitfit]

Cheers

What sort of pressure do you take the fire extinguishers up to?

I dont remember, but used to pump it up into the red
Never got fin bending squirt out of it though. I'll try and get you a vid of mine working if you like.

 

[Banshee]

You lot are wimps, just jet wash it, as long as you stay straight and don't get too close the ins will be fine

 

[makeitfit]

You lot are wimps, just jet wash it, as long as you stay straight and don't get too close the ins will be fine

You find me a jet wash out in the stix mate I'll have it. We're on about the clean before you drive bit :thumb2

 

[Banshee]

You find me a jet wash out in the stix mate I'll have it. We're on about the clean before you drive bit :thumb2

Ah I see!!!!

In that case garden sprayer is not a bad idea :naughty

 

[Madmark]

I'm liking fire extinguisher idea!!! Best I hunt round workshop. Garden sprayers are pants as use one for weed killing mot much umph before your pumping like a mad pumpy thing

 

[Bigbunny2007]

I was at a pay and play site last year and a lad had a pull up screen In front of the rad on a vitara and it worked really well. By the end of the days playing or laning it's already dried out and set pretty much. You need to stop it actually getting onto the rad in the first place me thinks!


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[makeitfit]

An interesting conundrum . Cover and risk overheating vs not covered and overheat from baked mud :doh
I'll soon be able to join the debate from the muddy side of the keyboard

 

[Madmark]

At end of the day clearing the mud is best option so ill try a cover on next play day. A retractable one is possible with a sprung loaded blind kit which I shall try and find one at work and have a go at making with hessian I reckon

 

[Madmark]

Sounds doable

 

[solarman216]

For my two penorth I think Bigbunnys method is the best so far, you can pull it up in muddy water and lower it as soon as out of it, when I first started going to Slindon I took drums of water a genny and a small pressure washer, but found I had to do the rad several times at a meet as the soup dried so quick on the hot rad, if I had left it till the end of the meet ** it would have been near impossible to jet it off with only around 100 Ltrs of water and no water is available on site before it is suggested, ** this was discovered after one of the early meets when upon getting home found the rad could only pass air at the top 3 inches, so removed it and it took hours to clear it, that was when I decided to put the rad some place else, problem solved, Rick