New Intake Installed In The Toyota Tacoma: I Was SO Wrong

foreign good afternoon everybody and welcome back to Rob motive today we are changing out the cold air intake we're putting a new cold air intake in the Toyota Tacoma now if you saw my previous video a couple Reasons I'm doing this well really one and that's because with only one single Hood strut the Hood's kind of sitting kind of weird it's kind of angled up there I don't like that I don't like putting stresses on the hinges I'm going to go ahead and change out the cold air intake so that I can fit another Hood strut over there to even out the way that the hood sits plus I want to try out the k n air filter this actually comes from Rough Country I think but it is a k n in air filter there will be a link down below if you want to check out price and all that stuff I've got it all laid out here you can see all the bits and pieces one thing that I didn't expect the tubing is metal I like that as opposed to plastic much better in my opinion so we're going to do a high speed removal of the uh current s b cold air intake which by the way I love the looks of it there's nothing wrong with it at all just doesn't work for the application that I want [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] that's how you remove the existing cold air intake at least the s b it's pretty much the same uh for the OEM version if you will now we have a big open hole it's time to start on the k n installation one more thing you have to do on the existing is remove the mass airflow sensor or the MAF sensor Phillips screwdriver make sure the Arrow when you put it back on points towards the center of the engine that's the best way to tell and this is going to go eventually right there on the new tube first step is to install these little rubber vibration prevention devices that's what I'm going to call them now these do Go in different spots you'd think they'd go where the originals were right but they do not one goes here one goes here and the other goes way down there and the one that goes way down there is the double-sided one or the double ended one which is this one so let's go ahead get these things put on and you can't really crank on these I would hand tighten them as far as you can get them in and call it a day you don't want to put a wrench on these rubber pieces and tear them up to put them on they are pretty firm to get in I'll tell you that so we're just gonna I don't think this one matters which way you put it looks like it's unidirectional if you will next up you have the heat shield bracket it needs to be installed with uh I guess an eight millimeter washer and an eight millimeter nut it's gonna go on the one isolator that's what I'll call them or vibration devices I don't know what you call them but it's going to go right down here in the front right over that it tells you to tighten it down but I think you need to line up where the heat shield is going to go first so we'll line it up and then we'll tighten it down here's a quick tip for you when I first put these isolators these rubber pieces in it got to a point where I couldn't tighten them anymore by hand but they stuck up about a quarter inch or so above the bottom of the area in here so I did grab a pair of pliers after I got maybe half of that further in I was able to tighten them down by hand they should fit against the edge of the metal here so don't stop and leave them up in the air you may have a fitment problem okay I've noticed a little bit of a problem and this is specific to my install but if you're gonna put a strut over here on this side you can see looking at this side guide that it does come right up against this plastic Shield here plastic piece now if I was to put a strut over here it's going to go in right down here at one side and then it's going to go up and it's going to come down right across here that means this corner is going to interfere with it so what I'm going to do is I'm going to just trim a little bit of that corner off it's not that big a deal it really shouldn't matter just to accommodate that hood strut which is part of the reason I'm doing this at all I made my cut and it actually came out really well you wouldn't know it didn't come that way and I was going to paint over the edges but honestly it's aluminum and there is a gasket right there it will cover that edge all the way from the bottom up around and down I believe so no need so now I have clearance finally amen and that's the one benefit this gives me over the s b is I can manipulate it so that it fits the way that I want so next up and I'm going to kind of mix up the steps a little bit because they don't tell you to do this till later but I'm going to go ahead and put that stripping on they want you to do it while it's in the truck and why have to be in these tight areas trying to get it done when you can do it outside and then bolt it in okay we've got the molding trim work flange whatever you want to call it around and I have to say the cut that I make or made you never even know now it's time to put the flange on the inside for the air filter and that's this part right here it's going to fit in like so and it's going to bolt in with a couple little black screws I guess we've got the heat shield ready the coupling is put in so now it's a matter of fastening it down inside the truck and that's just fastening it into these threaded hoochies we put in here and the one up here I've left this loose because until I get it bolted in a little bit I want to make sure I get this the right angle okay we've got the box installed everything tightened down inside seamless so far now we got to put the filter in by the way you can take the uh bracket off of here and turn it the right way mine came the wrong way as far as tightening position so you just slip it on there like so and then tighten the screw down next up you have to do a little searching here to find this Barbed fitting we're going to go ahead and screw that into the tube takes a 7 8 inch wrench to do that we've got that little Barb fitting in there don't over tighten that it's just plastic now we have to put the MAF sensor in again you want to have the arrow pointing the way of the flow and in my case it should go this way like so let's just see I'm curious if it fits the other way in other words can you screw it up and the answer is no you cannot screw this up so it only goes in one way that's good for somebody like me so they do Supply a couple of screws for that I'm going to go ahead and put that in next okay next up is to get the coupler onto the sensor end of the tube you'll notice there's two different size couplers the one with the bigger end if you will you can see one is just flat one is tapered that goes on the side because it's going to connect rather into the filter like so two different size clamps the one for the filter side is three and a half inches the one for the tube side is three and a quarter inches all right getting down to the nitty gritty now installing the clamps and the couplings on the tube make sure that you put the ends you're going to use to tighten with right up here up where you can reach it the tube is going to fit on like this so to orient it I guess this little flange that you put on is going to be pointing down to the side like so so just make sure you put these up so now it's just a matter of slipping this onto the throttle body and the filter on the other end we're going to see how tight that is and then tighten everything down put the MAV sensor back here or MAF sensor and the air line here and then we're pretty much done okay got it all done everything went back together this was probably the easiest cold air intake I've ever done very simple um let's take a look at it we've got a couple of clamps here of course onto the throttle body onto the tube itself little scrape there ah I must have gotten crazy moving on back we've got the vacuum line plugged in here the MAF sensor connected here by the way the battery is back on I did disconnect the battery I've done that with every cold air intake I've ever had and I've or done rather and I've never had any problems continuing on we've got the clamps on back here I'm kind of making sure they're tight as we go that I didn't forget anything and then the clamp here holding the filter itself on and of course the shield is in place right there as far as the appearance of it I like it it uh it looks kind of tough tough in there kind of me a little bit smaller filter than what the s b had but still pretty good size especially as compared to the OEM version so all that's left to do is to put the cover back on and start it up checking for check engine lights of course and then sound okay here we go first start up with you guys see if we hear anything any different [Music] not particularly no here we go we're going to accelerate up to 30 miles an hour we're almost there [Music] we're there uh I don't hear anything different it sounds the same as it did before you know I've heard from a lot of folks telling me Oh the k n will give you all this sound I'm not really hearing it I've never heard sound from any cold air intake except for what I have in the Jeep Gladiator the Jeep Wrangler and my mom's Jeep Gladiator that one is uh is awesome but you can't get that one for the Toyota Tacoma at least not in the same configuration so I'm sure you don't get any sound out of that either we're going to turn on to a higher speed Road and I'm going to accelerate up to I don't know 55 60 something like that here we go well uh yeah I don't know if you guys caught it but uh I did hear that thing sucking in air over there uh that was pretty wild no check engine lights fortunately that's a good thing I I don't expect any but I did hear it sucking in some air so we're gonna ask we're gonna slow down a little bit up here and then I'm gonna hit it again because that was pretty cool I kind of kind of like that let's get on it [Music] uh definitely is a difference there we got up to 82 by the way um definitely is a difference there I could for sure uh hear that cold air intake kicking in it's not really a Grumble uh it's more of a suck an air kind of thing let's turn around here and uh I'm just gonna Speed Up Normally now so here we go I don't know man you know they say that these give you more power too right I do have the the pedal commander on here so I don't have that throttle lag and wow what a combination pedal Commander dual exhaust and the Can Air cold air intake wow uh I'm amazed uh it's awesome I love it I love the looks of the s b don't get me wrong it's great looking cold air intake but it did not give me the off actor that the k n did so you folks out there that preach the k n I was wrong you're right anyway leave a comment let me know if you've had other cold air intakes and gone to the k n did you notice a difference I'd be curious to know also real quick I do have two additional channels robotic JT all about the Jeep Gladiator and the mod driven all about the Honda Civic with a new cold air intake by the way check them out and if you're interested why not subscribe and while you're at it smash the Subscribe button here too thanks for watching stay safe out there bye foreign [Music] [Music]

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Length: 14min 44sec (884 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 19 2023