Group,
I learned something else new from C-Dan yesterday. If I am the last to discover this then please be polite and don't ridicule me in public.
There is a little bucket attached to the bottom of your air filter canister. This little sub-canister is attached with two over-the-center clamps similar to the clamps that hold the top of the air cleaner assembly to the canister. When I opened mine it was completely full. There were BIG chunks of stuff. Most of it looked like soft rubber weather stripping and other rubber bits sucked into the intake and caught by the air filter. There was also a lot of dust and dirt. The turbine effect of the air spinning in the canister causes these bigger pieces to drop to the bottom and into this sub-canister. At 122k miles I don't think mine had ever been opened.
I searched the owner's manual for my '97 and it doesn't mention the air filter at all, much less this sub-canister. I searched the FSM and it mentions inspecting, cleaning, and replacing the air filter but it doesn't mention this sub-canister.
-B-
I learned something else new from C-Dan yesterday. If I am the last to discover this then please be polite and don't ridicule me in public.
There is a little bucket attached to the bottom of your air filter canister. This little sub-canister is attached with two over-the-center clamps similar to the clamps that hold the top of the air cleaner assembly to the canister. When I opened mine it was completely full. There were BIG chunks of stuff. Most of it looked like soft rubber weather stripping and other rubber bits sucked into the intake and caught by the air filter. There was also a lot of dust and dirt. The turbine effect of the air spinning in the canister causes these bigger pieces to drop to the bottom and into this sub-canister. At 122k miles I don't think mine had ever been opened.
I searched the owner's manual for my '97 and it doesn't mention the air filter at all, much less this sub-canister. I searched the FSM and it mentions inspecting, cleaning, and replacing the air filter but it doesn't mention this sub-canister.
-B-