14x3 air cleaner and mudding don't mix
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14x3 air cleaner and mudding don't mix
Me and some friends decided to do a little mudding out in the woods after a few days of rain. I completely forgot about my recent addition of a 14x3 air cleaner. I started hitting the puddles a little too hard and it finally caught up to me. I made it through a pretty deep one at 20mph and the truck started to bog down, I pumped the gas but it didn't matter, the truck stalled out.
After cussing a blue streak I finally worked up the guts to look under the hood. Pulled the hood up and saw that the heat liner or whatever that thing is had gotten soaked and fallen on the down on the engine. Once piece was laying on the exhaust manifold and was smoking, another piece got caught in the serpentine belt which caused the belt to pop off. and the main chunk of it was laying over the air cleaner suffocating the engine.
I pulled the filter off and looked into the intake and there was some water in there, but not too bad. I then tried starting the engine and after about 20 seconds of cranking it fired right up. It ran great too! I drove the rest of the trail VERY slowly since the throttle body had nothing covering it.
The moral of this story is...........either buy one of those filter bras or keep the stock intake on your truck when you go mudding. This could have ended a lot worse.
After cussing a blue streak I finally worked up the guts to look under the hood. Pulled the hood up and saw that the heat liner or whatever that thing is had gotten soaked and fallen on the down on the engine. Once piece was laying on the exhaust manifold and was smoking, another piece got caught in the serpentine belt which caused the belt to pop off. and the main chunk of it was laying over the air cleaner suffocating the engine.
I pulled the filter off and looked into the intake and there was some water in there, but not too bad. I then tried starting the engine and after about 20 seconds of cranking it fired right up. It ran great too! I drove the rest of the trail VERY slowly since the throttle body had nothing covering it.
The moral of this story is...........either buy one of those filter bras or keep the stock intake on your truck when you go mudding. This could have ended a lot worse.
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