I am not 100%, when I first put it on, it was cold, and my truck didn't
want to idle right. I ignored the problem until one night I was on a
trip in freezing rain and I checked my oil at a gas stop, and noticed a
big ball of ice covering 1/2 of the air cleaner. At the same time I
noticed my idle had smoothed out. By the time I was done and driving
again, the ice had melted and my funky idle was back. Once I got home,
I experimented, and determined that a strip of duct tape fixed me right
up. The next winter, I remembered my fix, but I was idling fine, so I
didn't need it, and the difference was that I had not cleaned my air
filter. Objectively it doesent make alot of sense, but well, it is *my*
truck, after all. It has almost as much weird shit happen to it as
Tom's truck...Ok, well maybe not Tom's, but I will take the Pepsi
challenge with most any other DML'er...LOL
MICHAEL CABE wrote:
> was it because the air is to cold coming in?
>
> --- On Sun, 9/19/10, Barry Oliver <barrysuperhawk@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>>From: Barry Oliver <barrysuperhawk@comcast.net>
>>Subject: Re: DML: Re: K&N fipk
>>To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
>>Date: Sunday, September 19, 2010, 11:36 AM
>>
>>MICHAEL CABE wrote:
>>
>>>ray,
>>>thanks for your post and jon your input.i have one
>>
>>more question.i live in northern illinois and it can be
>>below 0 for a few days and in the 0 to teens the rest of the
>>time.should i leave my k&n setup on in the winter or
>>could the cold affect my truck in some way? now i got some
>>reading to do . thanks again guys.
>>
>>>mike
>>>
>>
>>I also live in Illinois, and I drive alot in the
>>winter. When I first put it on, it was pristinely
>>clean that first winter and I had to put a couple strips of
>>duct tape to get it to run right. My solution lately
>>has been to make sure not to clean my K&N as winter
>>approaches, so it's partially dirty over the winter.
>>YMMV [literally]
>>
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