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Intake hum?

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    modmonster2008 Complete Newbie

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    Intake hum?

    Recently, my aftermarket intake started making a humming noise, it didnt do it before so im just wondering why it did that all of a sudden, its like the sound of when you blow across the top of a bottle sorta, if anyone knows a fix to that let me know, thanks!
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    could be a leak, sounds like a leak, i had something similar happen to mine and it turned out to be the belt making squeaking noises and nothing to do with my CAI. check your filter too.
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    the noise comes mostly from the cone filter itself because i put my oem airbox back on and the noise stopped, its just wierd that the noise shows up all of a sudden after months of it not humming at all, and what should i check about the filter, clean it perhaps? havent cleaned it since i got the intake about 6 months ago :eek:
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    MovieSTAR i hurd u liek?

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    i vote clean it.
    MovieSTAR, Jan 18, 2009
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    could be it loosing oil over time and gaining the hum sound. I'd clean it, reoil and go from there
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    yes CorollasBest you are correct! I did buy the recharge kit and i cleaned it and re-oiled the cotton part, and it seems to have quiet down
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    i thought oil filters = ftl
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    think he has a map sensor in his 7th gen.. oiled filters ftl with a MAF but have little affect on a pressure sensor.

    If I had designed such a filter I'd make it whistle by design when it's ready for more oil.. similar to how a furnace filter whistles when it's full.
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    thats why i have dryflow :) just cleaned mine yesterday :)
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    That's what I'm going to buy as well, re-oiling sucks!
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    my filter is extremely dirty, during our snow storm i took out the CAI and put my factory air filter box in and left the filter rolling around in my bumper over the fender and it got dirty as hell, i washed it off but didnt re-oil it.
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