How to Remove Cold Air Intake

Video Transcript

"In this clip we're going to talk about the proper way to remove and replace an electronic cooling fan. In this step we're going to talk about removal of the cold air intake piping in order to gain access to the mounting bolt for an electronic cooling fan. Most front wheel drive vehicles will have a cool air intake. What that does is keeps the engine from drawing hot air from the engine compartment, and it draws cool air from up in the front of the vehicle through the hood. Takes a ten millimeter socket in most cases, three eighths drive ratchet, the bolts are all lefty loosie righty tighty. Once you have them broke free, you can spin them off by hand, you can go on and take and set them in your magnetic tray. The reason why they use a cold air intake is because cooler air has more oxygen in it, just being that it is more dense than hot air. The reason why you know it's more dense is hot air is what they use in hot air balloons to float away, so the cold air is going to be denser and have more oxygen in it. The more oxygen you get into your engine, the better it runs. Alright, once you have the mounting bolts removed, you can take and undo the hose clamp, and remove the snorkel from the air filter box. You're going to want to use a wiggling method, these things are made of rubber and due to the age of the vehicle, it may have embrittle and want to tear if you just try and yank it off. That is the proper service procedure for removing your cold air intake."