Re: Question about the "snorkel" base

[Ilias Glavinas <elias@tesla.wustl.edu>]

On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, SHAWN C MEZE wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Sep 1997 14:16:44 -0500 (CDT) Ilias Glavinas
> <elias@tesla.wustl.edu> writes:
> >
> >I have cut and taken off the snorkel in my car for some time now. Last 
> >night 1st-3rd-5th would not go in all the way. I thought "uh oh" tranny 
> >problems. Fortunately it turned out that the base for the snorkel
> (which, 
> >I confess, is one of the few unexplored areas in my car, and I don't 
> >know exactly where it goes) rusted and fell off right between the
> linkage. 
> 
> 
> Uh... Um... Uh <sigh>.  Snorkel.....  What's this "Snorkel" look like?
> What's it do. Where was it before you removed it? 

Oops, sorry, my fault. I read many threads back in the vw newsgroup 
refering to the pipe that runs from somewhere behind the exhaust manifold 
to the airbox as "the snorkel" and I thought that was a commonly used 
term (guess not). 

It is the pipe that supposedly provides hotter air than normal to airbox 
for cold starts (or something to that effect, but its purpose is to give 
hot air to the airbox). 


Ilias
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