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Hello and welcome to Truckblog.TV. I am Chris Duke and today we are going to install Airaid intake kit which is going to give us an additional 21 horsepower on our project vehicle, a 2008 GMC Yukon 5.3 liter. Let's check out the parts.
As you can see, the stock intake kit on this GM truck is highly restricted with this big old closed-up box, so Airaid engineered a solution to solve the problem and that includes this heat shield right here, a pre-oiled air filter. It has big intake to bunch of adaptors and hoses and clamps and all you need to install are a couple of common tools like these socket wrenches, Philips screwdriver and an Allen wrench. Let's get started with the installation.
First thing we need to do is we need to get this beauty cover off so we get to the rest of the intake. And to do that, all I got to do is lift up on the front of it, pull it forward, and there it is. Alright, now we're going to disconnect this breather hose from the valve cover and it just pops off, like that.
Now, we got to remove the factory intake tube and radiator hose from this assembly and the way you do that is, you just press down on this hose and it pops off, that's it. Now we've loosened up this factory intake tube right here. We've got three clamps that we need to loosen up. One is over here and the other two are located over here. All you need to do now is a simple flat-point screwdriver.
Now we've got these tubes disconnected, we can remove the stock intake tube from the mass airflow sensor right here by popping that off. This whole assembly kind of twists up and pops off the engine just like that, pretty easy.
Now we've the got the intake tube off the engine. We're going to remove the mass airflow sensor, which is this guy right here. We've already loosened this clamp. So we're just going to twist this, take him off and set him aside.
Now we're going to remove the factory airbox and the way you do that is just grab a whole of it, rock it back and forth, grab it and pull it out. Alright, now we're going to remove our factory airbox mounting plate, which is connected with these four 10 millimeter bolts. This is our last bolt here, there is our mounting plate.
Alright, now we're going to put together these two panels of this cold air dam using five 3/16 inch screws. Now that we've tightened up all the screws on our cold air dam, we're going to install this filter adaptor right here with these three quarter inch bolts and an Allen wrench.
Now, we've got our cold air dam fully assembled. We can put it in where the factory airbox was. We're going to use these four 6 millimeter bolts to do it. Now, Airaid recommends that you don't over tighten these bolts.
Now we've got the cold air box secured down. I'm going to attach the mass airflow sensor to this filter adaptor with the stock clamp. Then this hump hose here is going to go on the mass airflow sensor. Tighten down, just the clamp that's on the mass airflow sensor.
Next, install the barbed fitting into the intake tube. Now we've installed this barbed fitting here. We're going to take this urethane coupler and we're going to install it in the throttle body end of this tube with the hose clamp.
Now we're going install the tube onto the hump hose and the throttle body. Now I am going to tighten both clamps. Now we've got the Airaid intake assembly fully installed. We need to detach this Airaid supplied breather hose from the factory port down here that we originally detached. You pull in the hose from, up to the tube. That's it.
Now we're going to install the Airaid filter onto the filter adaptor right inside here and tighten the clamp. Now we're going to install this weather strip onto the top of the cold air dam starting over here with the side fender and looping around. So here, right after you tighten everything up, you want to reinstall the beauty cover.
Just make sure that these two spots here on the bottom of the beauty cover are lined up with these two posts. What we got to do to reinstall it, just slide it in, watch out for all the hoses, line it up, and press down. Installation is all done. Let's fire it up and see how this thing sounds now.
Well, we've just finished the installation of our Airaid intake kit on our early GMC Yukon. Installation was easy and it sounds great. Best of all, we got rid of this big horn that's right here.
That does it for this show. For more information, go to www.airaid.com and for more episodes of Truckblog.TV, go to truckblog.tv.
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Let's take a look at one of the parts. To solve the problem Airaid came out with a kit, to solve the problem. I'm not a professional. I'm not. Hey, out there, check that people. It suits you well. It is one of the things that you think the words aren't the right ones but they are. Alright, got some ice-cream, I'm your father. Now we're going to install this weather strip. For more information on Airaid, go to www.airaid.com and for more episodes of Truckblog.TV.
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