Yet another alert
I'm just see, all to often, where engine Air Filter is installed improperly and rubber seal of filter has curled.
How could that be. We just pop in a fasten down with 4 clips right. Well right. But if care is not taken during install, to seat lid on seal. The seal gets curled and is ineffective at sealing.
Once rubber seal curled, it gets pinched. Then In most cases, not reusable.
This allows dust into intake. Inspecting air pipe can be helpful at revealing how much dust has entered the intake. Any dust in air tube is never a good sign.
To properly install and OEM filter. Open air box lid by releasing the 4 spring clips. Clean both bottom and top of seal area. If debris in box vacuum it out, filter will be effective longer (20K miles normal city driving. Off road replace more often). Then place seal in bottom side of box, seating seal on box. Placing lid on top of filters rubber seal, is where install gets tricky. The air pipe will be pushing outward against the air box lid. This keeps lid from lining up with box and rubber seal of filter. Press the lid inward toward the air tube against its resistance. Keep lid off the rubber seal as lid pushed inward until aligned with box/rubber seal of filter, and then bring it down onto filters rubber seal. Work lid onto filter rubber seals squarely, taking care now to curl the seal. Fasten all four clips. While fastening clips, the amount of force to fasten each clip should feel the same. If 1 or 2 clips, feel more difficult to fasten, the seal is not properly seated.
Note: If removing lid from air pipe for cleaning, by releasing band clamp. Disconnect battery negative post clamp, before unplugging MAF. Reattached MAF before battery. If battery left disconnected for 20 minutes, it reset ECU. Which is a very good thing during a tune. ECU will reset to baseline and relearn faster, the airflow of new filter. It's also great time to use MAF spray cleaner, and cleaner & grease battery post & clamps.
Busted air box clamps need correcting. Even tying down temporarily is good idea. OEM air filter is the best we can get. A rubber grease applied to rubber seal improves the seal, but not required. I pull out, any K&N filter, aftermarkets filters of filters with bad seal, and R&R with OEM. I've seen Denso non Toyota which are okay. But OEM fit best.
I'm just see, all to often, where engine Air Filter is installed improperly and rubber seal of filter has curled.
How could that be. We just pop in a fasten down with 4 clips right. Well right. But if care is not taken during install, to seat lid on seal. The seal gets curled and is ineffective at sealing.
Once rubber seal curled, it gets pinched. Then In most cases, not reusable.
This allows dust into intake. Inspecting air pipe can be helpful at revealing how much dust has entered the intake. Any dust in air tube is never a good sign.
To properly install and OEM filter. Open air box lid by releasing the 4 spring clips. Clean both bottom and top of seal area. If debris in box vacuum it out, filter will be effective longer (20K miles normal city driving. Off road replace more often). Then place seal in bottom side of box, seating seal on box. Placing lid on top of filters rubber seal, is where install gets tricky. The air pipe will be pushing outward against the air box lid. This keeps lid from lining up with box and rubber seal of filter. Press the lid inward toward the air tube against its resistance. Keep lid off the rubber seal as lid pushed inward until aligned with box/rubber seal of filter, and then bring it down onto filters rubber seal. Work lid onto filter rubber seals squarely, taking care now to curl the seal. Fasten all four clips. While fastening clips, the amount of force to fasten each clip should feel the same. If 1 or 2 clips, feel more difficult to fasten, the seal is not properly seated.
Note: If removing lid from air pipe for cleaning, by releasing band clamp. Disconnect battery negative post clamp, before unplugging MAF. Reattached MAF before battery. If battery left disconnected for 20 minutes, it reset ECU. Which is a very good thing during a tune. ECU will reset to baseline and relearn faster, the airflow of new filter. It's also great time to use MAF spray cleaner, and cleaner & grease battery post & clamps.
Busted air box clamps need correcting. Even tying down temporarily is good idea. OEM air filter is the best we can get. A rubber grease applied to rubber seal improves the seal, but not required. I pull out, any K&N filter, aftermarkets filters of filters with bad seal, and R&R with OEM. I've seen Denso non Toyota which are okay. But OEM fit best.
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