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Old May 16, 2011 | 02:04 PM
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Default Re: SLK NA Engine Cover eBay
Originally Posted by dtinker
After you pull the cover off, flip it over. You will see some screws on either side. Under the two covers where the screws are you will find the air filters. You can buy K&N replacements if they are not already replaced. The K&Ns last forever with just cleaning and re oiling. Good luck. Oh, when you put it back on, slide the air tubes into the radiator support first, push it far enough forward that the oil filter housing hole is lined up and push the cover down at the rear, line up the air intake with the air box hole. Push down on the cover at rear and front, you will feel it fit in.
If you are changing the engine cover then you are better of getting the larger engine cover that uses the larger filters.
You would have to get larger intake tubes to do it right but the stock tubes do fit tightly inside the larger box.
Larger box, larger throttle body, maybe the larger MAF housing, larger intake tubes and the larger filters, costs money but what the heck gotta keep the economy going.
The hole you mean is the oil filler hole not the filter hole, there is no filter hole.
I always put the cover on first and then add the tubes as they concertina and you can fit them to the cover.
Locate the cover on the air pump spigot at the front, rotate down at the rear and push down.
If you have the two piece cover, leave the nose off and locate it to the four snaps.
Lithium grease on the five snaps makes it easier.
 
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