Air Filter after 9,000 miles
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No worries... the filter was sized to meet dust capacity of the 90th percentile customer at 30K miles, thus the 4inch pleats. Since the filter media was/is still intact, there's no reason to expect any loss in functionality. We've run durability tests, side by side with all other OEM HD truck air induction system designs and the Superduty by far was the best performing under the most extreme conditions.
Diesels pull a lot of air, and there are a lot of constraints you need to work around. Rise over ambient being one of the most significant, meaning, you want to pull air where it's the coolest to make horsepower and have the most volumetric efficiency. However, that requires trade-offs as to where you can pull air from. Designs are iterated over and over to determine the best balance. The aftermarket kits often advertise improved air-flow, however, there are always trade-offs in inlet air temps vs. air flow.
-Paul
Diesels pull a lot of air, and there are a lot of constraints you need to work around. Rise over ambient being one of the most significant, meaning, you want to pull air where it's the coolest to make horsepower and have the most volumetric efficiency. However, that requires trade-offs as to where you can pull air from. Designs are iterated over and over to determine the best balance. The aftermarket kits often advertise improved air-flow, however, there are always trade-offs in inlet air temps vs. air flow.
-Paul
Thanks for the reply, Paul. Frustrating for something like this to happen just because of driving through snow, but all that air has to come from somewhere and if there's lots of snow in that air...
Now that I think of it, I've likely driven on this damaged filter for ~4,000 miles. I can't see any spots where the filter media has worn through, could I have done any damage driving it like this?
Now that I think of it, I've likely driven on this damaged filter for ~4,000 miles. I can't see any spots where the filter media has worn through, could I have done any damage driving it like this?
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Thats what I was thinking also
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