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Jul 23, 2006 | 08:53 AM

CHEROKEE GYPSY

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Changing Stock Air Filter

Mine is an 06 with 5k on it.How often should i change it.Not real dusty here in east TEXAS.

Jul 23, 2006 | 09:47 PM

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Once a year or 12,000 miles...should keep your SD V10 happy.

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Jul 24, 2006 | 04:43 PM

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I am in Central Texas and play in the fine powdered Colichi on Fort Hood most of the time... I do two a YEAR and the used one is not too bad... out your side of the state you can probably go much longer.

Best bet is to check it every 180 days. Takes about 7 seconds to get it out fan the pleats open and look for more or less then 50% obstruction... don't sweat the black oily sooty patterns on top...just the filter doing it's thing and letting you know you drive too close to smoke pot diesel rigs

You can see sun light though the paper where it is cleaner then the dirty sections

These are very large filters for the amount of air the 415 motor needs...

Jul 24, 2006 | 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Fredvon4

don't sweat the black oily sooty patterns on top...just the filter doing it's thing and letting you know you drive too close to smoke pot diesel rigs.

This I just don't understand. My BMW and two Focus' all take air directly in the front of the vehicle just like the SD. So why don't thier filters get the black soot? They get normal road dirt, rocks, bugs etc but never any oil type soot.
Just strange.....

Jul 24, 2006 | 07:25 PM

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Are these filter housings supposed to be closed, except for the inlet? Mine has an open circle in it that causes a moan at idle when it's cold out and causes my filter to have a perfect black circle on the side of it. Just wondering if I was missing a rubber plug or something, or if there is a purpose to the hole. ?

Jul 25, 2006 | 12:09 PM

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I would have thought that the 03 is the same as all the 01-04 round cone element designs... I don't recall a secondary opening in my housing...

On the 2005 flat filter housing I have two air inlets... one in front just like the round canister style and in the side real with a rubber hose that gets air from the dirvers inner fender well... this is where most of my black soot is from and is probably tire scrub and brake dust

The diesel jab was just a joke... but now that GT4pont6 askes I think it has to do with the height of the air inlet.... the lower to the ground cars are not going to be in the raising exhaust stream of the vehicles in front ?? Hell I really don't know......... it is true that my Ranger and Escort ZX2 do not get the black oily soot my Superduty trucks do............. hummmm??

Jul 25, 2006 | 07:33 PM

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On the 2005 flat filter housing I have two air inlets... one in front just like the round canister style and in the side real with a rubber hose that gets air from the dirvers inner fender well... this is where most of my black soot is from and is probably tire scrub and brake dust

The diesel jab was just a joke...

I've seen the jab posted a few times so I didn't know what to make of it, but I like it!

I'll have to look at mine when I get it back to see if the little tube that feeds the side is in the front or back part of the housing. It's only the front part that gets sooty, I remember that, just not sure where the tube part is on the side.
I can see the soot being tire and brake dust, that makes sense.