John: Hey, guys.
John here, with Real Truck Garage.
Today we're going to be installing a K&N air intake system
onto a 2013 F-150, with the eco-boost engine.
This kit comes with everything you need, the couplers, clamp kit,
mass airflow sensors, adapters, the air box, the intake tube, and
of course, your air filter.
So what we're going to do now is, we're going to go
ahead and start getting that old system out of that truck
to make room for our new K&N system.
The first thing that we're going to do is, we're going to
go ahead and unplug our mass airflow sensor from the
air box.
The next thing that we're going to do is go ahead and loosen up our clamps.
Now that we've got our clamps loose we can go ahead and get this tubing out of our way.
And then we can just take and lay this to the side, because
we won't need this anymore.
The next thing we want to do is go ahead and take our mass
airflow sensor, that uses an inside torque-type of
socket, right on top of the head of the bolt.
What you want to do is you want to just kind of
work it back and forth and wiggle it a little bit, but we have to be
careful with these because they're all plastic and
we don't want to break these.
The next thing is, we go ahead and get the air box cover
off and the air filter out.
And what we want to do next is go ahead and put our mass airflow sensor plate
onto our air tube, take this foam gasket and peel the
backing off it, take the foam backing and we'll go ahead and put it onto
the back of our plate that we're going to be using.
Make sure that you put it on so that the notches are cut
out for your holes.
So the next thing we're going to do is go ahead and
install this onto our tube.
And once we have that on, what I like to do to make it a little easier is just
go ahead and spray a little carb clean on this rubber
bushing and then we can go ahead and install our mass airflow sensor
into our plate.
The one thing you want to keep in mind is, when
you're tightening up this bolt that holds this sensor
in place, do not over tighten this.
The next thing we want to do is go ahead and take this
small 1/16th inch tube and cut it into equal 9-inch lengths.
Now we'll take these pieces and we'll go ahead and
attach these to the edges of our air box.
Now that we've got those on, we'll go ahead and turn this over and we'll
attach the larger one to the top of our box.
And then when you get to the end, as you can see, you'll have a little excess,
you can go ahead and just cut that off.
The next thing we want to do is go ahead and install our
air tube to air filter connector.
What we want to make sure is that we put the large end to
the inside.
And we'll go ahead and bolt this on here.
We're going to go ahead and install our air filter into
our air box.
Once you have that tightened down, it's all ready to go, so what we want to do is just
go ahead and take those tabs and slide them back into
the slots in our air box.
And go ahead and kind of just push down on it
a little bit, use our factory clips.
The next step is to go ahead and install our couplers.
With this coupler here, you can see it differs by the
fact that this one has this bulge in the center.
This particular coupler is the one that we want
to attach to air box.
So I'll go ahead and slip that one on there.
Now the smaller one then will go onto our air intake tube, and then
the last one goes down onto our turbo tube.
Then we'll just go ahead and lay our clamps in here, where we need them.
So now we're going to go ahead and put this tube in here.
Okay, once we get our tube all installed, then the next
step is to go ahead and tighten up our clamps.
The last step, and it's very important and one
that we don't forget, and that is to remember to plug in
this sensor.
And there you have it.
That's how you put a K&N air intake system into a 2013 F-150, with the 3.5 eco-boost
turbo engine.