How to Change the Air Filter on a Car

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Hi, I'm Doug, I work with 20 great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. Now we're going to change out the, or at least inspect the air filter and see what's going on with it. So when you see, you look at the air filter and what you want to see is not that, you want to see just a regular old orange air filter with some leaves and moths and a little bit of dirt in there. What that black is there is there's some pollution controls on this car that recirculate engine blow by through there and what he's got going on here is the engine is a little bit worn and it circulating a little bit of motor oil back into the air filter when the crank case is ventilating. Not a big deal, nothing to worry about but just something to keep a watch on. Now you've got to be careful when you put that filter in there that you lay it in there just right. A lot of these air boxes on modern imports are really sticky to get in and it's pretty easy to overlap the seal on the edge of the air filter around the air box. And this one is pretty easy to do, you don't need any tools for this one, it's just the snaps, these little spring clips that you snap on there to hold the air box together.

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