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05-18-2013, 12:58 AM | #1 |
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Location: South Texas
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Re: My 88 Silverado
I've had my air pump disabled for over 10 years and I still have it on my truck along with some other parts it needed. I decided to start removing parts connecting it to my air canister. There was a rubber hose going from the pump to the air filter housing with a little plastic filter, I removed the hose and was left with a hole on the air canister. So now I was left with 2 giant holes on my air filter housing, one was from the hose and the other was from the heat riser that was connected to the stock manifold.
Since I changed to headers I no longer needed the heat riser so I took the air housing off to work on it. I had already removed the flap inside the air housing tube to give it some better air flow and under the air housing there was a circular tube where the heat riser would go. Since I didn't need it I went ahead and cut it off to give it a flushed look. I didn't have any scrap steel laying around so I made lemonade out of lemons, I used some thin aluminum I had laying around. I cut two pieces of aluminum into the desired size and covered the holes on the housing. I had read in another forum that they used cardboard as a gasket so I was going to use a cereal box. Liz was doing the laundry and she gave me the flaps from the detergent box which was way better than the cereal box I was planning on using, so I made my gaskets and drilled the aluminum and the air canister to install some rivets. After both pieces were riveted I went ahead and added some spray paint to give it a more finished look. I also removed the thin plastic hose that went to the egr and the air pump. I installed some rubber vacuum caps i got for free thanks to my autozone rewards to avoid any air leaks. Now all I need to flip over my air lid is to get the intake duct behind the headlights and clean my K&N filter.
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