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Greg L

Member Since: 30 Sep 2013
Location: Alexandria
Posts: 46

Collapsing Air Filter

Friend showed me on his unknown tuned TD5 the airfilter was all crushed, it has a snorkel fitted and a hybrid turbo on it.
I've never seen this before to a standard filter. Any advice on how to solve this ?

10th Apr 2017 9:53pm

grafty99

Member Since: 15 Aug 2012
Location: North Devon
Posts: 4786

Has the water separator been removed from the air box? It's a static fan looking thing in the incoming air duct if it's there

Removal of this can make the filter soggy to the point that it is so restrictive that the turbo starts to suck it in.

The extra restriction of the snorkel will exacerbate this

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10th Apr 2017 10:07pm

geobloke

Member Since: 06 Nov 2012
Location: Nottinghamshire
Posts: 4410

Re: Collapsing Air Filter

Greg L wrote:
Friend showed me on his unknown tuned TD5 the airfilter was all crushed, it has a snorkel fitted and a hybrid turbo on it.
I've never seen this before to a standard filter. Any advice on how to solve this ?

Standard paper filter?!

11th Apr 2017 8:13am

roel

Member Since: 08 Aug 2009
Location: Lelystad
Posts: 2039

It only happens if they get really wet or wet regulary. I never had that problem yet, but had some wet filters.

Click image to enlarge

But now I have a snorkel and no wet filters anymore.

Click image to enlarge Roel

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11th Apr 2017 8:34am

Greg L

Member Since: 30 Sep 2013
Location: Alexandria
Posts: 46

Yep standard paper filter, he has a Mantec snorkel with a mushroom pre cleaner on it.

11th Apr 2017 5:05pm

bankz5152

Member Since: 02 Feb 2017
Location: South London/North Kent
Posts: 2173

Probably very restrictive intake then. The same happened to my old 90 but only when the paper filter was totally blocked with mud!

13th Apr 2017 11:37am

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