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YOUR RESEARCHAir Filter Step By Step !! - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners
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Use shop vac
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(I use my shop vac with a special attachment I made myself for cleaning the leaves and other crap from in front of the radiators without having to remove the bumper.
Air Filter Step By Step !! - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners
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Leading evidence: 'Use shop vac' (no explicit attributable resolution; this is a reported action or suggestion). Across 1 matching discussions, The most frequently discussed action is 'Clean before putting the new filter back in' (1 discussions). For that action, 0 discussions report a resolution and 0 report an unsuccessful attempt. No action has an explicit, attributable resolution report under the current rules. These are forum reports and suggestions, not a confirmed diagnosis.
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Just make absolutely sure the filter plenum is TOTALLY clean before putting the new filter back in.
Air Filter Step By Step !! - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners
Clean leaves and other crap
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(I use my shop vac with a special attachment I made myself for cleaning the leaves and other crap from in front of the radiators without having to remove the bumper.
Air Filter Step By Step !! - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners
Replace air filter in my 1997 boxster
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Please help me replace my air filter in my 1997 Boxster!
Air Filter Step By Step !! - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners
Replace air filter in my 2001 boxster
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Please help me replace the air filter in my 2001 Boxster!
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Clean leaves and other crap
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(I use my shop vac with a special attachment I made myself for cleaning the leaves and other crap from in front of the radiators without having to remove the bumper.
Air Filter Step By Step !! - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners
Use shop vac
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(I use my shop vac with a special attachment I made myself for cleaning the leaves and other crap from in front of the radiators without having to remove the bumper.
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Please help me replace my air filter in my 1997 Boxster!
I have no clue what to do. Would anyone be kind enough to take me step by step, to get through the process.
I was told it should not be too difficult and a DO it yourself deal
thanks
Put top down about 4 inches. Put car in service mode. Take out storage bin, take off engine cover, undo clips on airbox, pull airfilter out. Replace, and reverse directions.
The air filter for a 987 is an entirely different one than on a 986 so there might be a couple more steps involved in terms of clamping the air filter in as opposed to dropping it in.
Just make absolutely sure the filter plenum is TOTALLY clean before putting the new filter back in. When you take out the old one, all the crap sitting on top falls into the plenum, and if you don't clean it out, it'll get sucked into the engine lickety split!
(I use my shop vac with a special attachment I made myself for cleaning the leaves and other crap from in front of the radiators without having to remove the bumper. It's just a piece of 1/2" pvc pipe about 2 feet long duct-taped to a fitting that'll attach to the vac.)
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by "service mode" that means opening the top a few inches and getting to the engine? Its not actually putting the engine into a special valet type mode electrically for service right?
Please help me replace the air filter in my 2001 Boxster!
I know how to access the engine bay but couldn't feagure out how to open the air filter box and replace the filter.
Your kind support will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
