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I struggled with these things for hours and then changed the top ducts to this orange duct material that has a lot of flexibility and is slightly larger than the connecting duct work. This is a tricky operation, lining up the bottom ducts at the same time as the top ones.

I was trying a tight fitting black on silver duct, for hours, changed to the orange duct, secured the inside with a clamp and the outside forces itself over the air box and is secure with or without a clamp.


When I am taking this stuff apart I always think the reassembly will be just as easy. Wrong! This is 2-man operation, one holds the top down and the other gets upside down in the foot well to screw the grates onto the base of the box. Contortion required.


See those round spring clips holding the pieces together? I used to have the tool to compress these little ****ers but I can't find it, nor can I find it at ACE, Home Depot, Lowes, Harbor Freight, Sears, Auto Zone, O'Reilly's and it just dawned on me...NAPA mifght have it. Anyone know the name of the tool, spring clip pliers? You know what it's like putting them on with regular pliers. I lost several when they spin off the pliers into the wild blue yonder. I hear them ricochet off things as they fly away. It take a special pliers with a swivel round head with grooves in it.

Update on the clock. After 48 hours, has not lost a minute. 100 miles to go to first oil change.