89 Glovebox Question

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eroc37

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Atlanta, Georgia

• Dec 23, 2008

• #1

What's between the glovebox and the firewall? is the heater core back there? some vital wire harness? i want to drill through there with a hole saw to run my air intake inside the jeep and can't figure out how to remove the glovebox or just what's lurking back there.

anyone know?

 

magimerlin

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Flatonia, Tx

• Dec 23, 2008

• #2

The vac lines for the heater control, some wires, top of the heater core box, ducting for the side and windshield defroster. I think that's about it that i can think of.

 

jragan

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Colorado Springs

• Dec 24, 2008

• #3

Air intake inside the jeep. Do you realize how much noise that will create. Really not room to pull it through the fire wall there unless you have plans to remove the heater.

 

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eroc37

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Atlanta, Georgia

• Dec 24, 2008

• #4

i know it would be loud but i was thinking of a switchable underhood/inside cab intake that i could close upon water crossings. it would be annoyingly loud but OK for a short time.

but as i figured there is no clean place to go through the firewall.

i guess i have to use the stupid tree catcher snorkel like everybody else.

 

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xj88superjeep

NAXJA Forum User

Location

NJ

• Dec 24, 2008

• #5

Or a Hood Scoop snorkel.... Mine is not finished yet...

 

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xray

NAXJA Member #1056

Location

wisconsin

• Dec 25, 2008

• #6

Run it into the cowl. It will be high enough to keep the water out.

 

hanaxj87

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Cincinnati,Ohio

• Dec 25, 2008

• #7

xray said:

Run it into the cowl. It will be high enough to keep the water out.

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Yeah That's what I'am doing!

Nick

 

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xj88superjeep

NAXJA Forum User

Location

NJ

• Dec 26, 2008

• #8

xray said:

Run it into the cowl. It will be high enough to keep the water out.

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Good call!

 

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Blaine B.

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Northwest Indiana

• Dec 26, 2008

• #9

I plan on keeping my stock airbox and just running a tube into the cown to draw air from there.

However if you were ditching the stock airbox completely or even if you were keeping it, it would be cool to bring the intake above the cowl and fabricate a dome or something to cover the intake, sort of like the HMMWV's have.

 

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xj88superjeep

NAXJA Forum User

Location

NJ

• Dec 26, 2008

• #10

My plan if I keep my 88 is to fab an airtube from the left scoop to the stock airbox, which is much easier than creating a whole new filter solution/location... then fab a way to block off the stock intake location just for deep fording situations.