Oh okay , The turning the lights on thing thru me off a bit. - Just haven't heard that one.

Yea , It's suppose to only take 5 minutes for a full KAM reset after a disconnect. What the techs do to bypass that is pull the Neg and touch the Pos, then reconnect lol. Sounds dangerous don't it

That's what they do and it works , I won't tell anyone to do it that way.

So does hitting the switch clear the KAM right away? You don't have the dwell time - you don't have to wait ?

There's two fuses you can pull as well - Ones in the PDB - the others under the dash.

 

basically, yes. The lights have enough load that it will suck the juice out totally in 10 seconds tops. I have heard about that tech trick but that is basically because most are too lazy to go around the truck and turn on the lights for a few seconds.

 

Sorry man, you're about 8 years too late. Even then someone had already done it, only with PVC. (Which I hear is bad for intake use under the hood.) "Simpsons did it!!!"

https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...ghlight=Fernco

 

I knew someone out there would have done something similar. Why didn't you write up an article 8 years ago?

 

No digi cam at the time.

 

I thought this sounded like a cheap way to create more air flow so I went and bought the supplies. Just came back in from the shop with dissapointment...This doesn't work on the 97' models. The snorkel is different than the 2000 model that the pics are from. It's smaller so where I would connect the coupler to the filter box is only about 2" OD so I put it back together and cut the lights out. Any suggestions or did anybody make this work for the 97'?

 

Works for the 98 model just fine . Do you have a 4.2L or something ?

 

NO, it's a 5.4 L. I was surprised it wouldn't fit. You know how the filter box goes down to about 2" diameter where the 3" coupler should go on. This is why it wouldn't work. The 3" coupler wouldn't tighten down so I assumed this area is different on mine than the other years. What do you think?

 

I think I know what your taking about - I'm trying to remember how I did that lol .

My inner fender opening was just a little bit to small - just a fraction , not much. A 3" hole saw widened that enough to slide the schedule 40 PCV pipe inside the opening.

Once that was done, I left the PCV a little long and shoved it thru the hole until it hit something solid. I placed the air box in position /marked the PCV and cut where it met the air box - The Air box - PCV didn't mate perfectly.

I reamed the inside of the factory air box with the PCV attached w/sanding wheel to smooth out the inside transition - I had to do this w/box /fernco/PCV all in place in the truck. Once that was done, I pulled the PVC and chopped it a little shorter , slid it back into the Fernco and tightened the clamp closest to the fender before placing it in the truck.

Once in place - I then tight the Fernco clamp on th box side..

It's harder to explain than it was to do.

Here's a pic of my factory box - I don't have one with the mod -

 

I made it work for my 97, I just bought a 2003 airbox on ebay! :-D

 

Thanks for the input on my problem. Unless I can make it work with the box I got, I'll leave it stock.

 

Will this mod cause a stock 4.6 V8 to run lean on air fuel mix. Not very knowledgable on air intakes and what it will do to air / fuel ratio.

 

You will have a very hard time making the 2v's run lean. You could but an 8 inch intake on and as long as its still going through the stock MAF it wont run lean.

 

Shoot, you could run without an airbox and won't run lean. I don't use an airbox in the winter.

What usually goes wrong in an air intake to cause a lean condition is a dirty MAF sensor or an IAT grommet leak . Also , if it's leaking at one of the clamps or the IAC and Breather tubes will cause lean conditions.

 

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