Last weekend I had an experience I wanted to share.

I was trying to tighten a loose exhaust manifold bolt and in order to get to it pulled the air box off its studs and moved it aside. Afterwards while putting it back in place I thought I would check my air filter and see how dirty it was. I had replaced it about 10 months earlier. Much to my surprise I find the filter had been sucked up into the intake tube and was badly mangled. This was a Mopar air filter. I noticed that the metal mesh on the back of it was much lighter than the metal mesh on my K&N filter so I ended up putting it back in. I didn't see any dirt on the turbo blades and I changed my oil and filter after that. Hopefully it didn't suck much dirt in.

Keith

 

Was the outside perimeter of the filter in place or was that out of place to??

 

It was out of place. It was creased on one side and that is the end that was sucked up into the tube.

Keith