How to Replace Intake Air Box 1994-2002 Dodge Ram 1500

Hey friends, it's Len here at 1A Auto. Today we're going to be working on our 1996 Dodge Ram 1500. I'm going to show you something very basic, removing the air filter housing. It's going to be very easy. I can do it, and you can do it too. As always, if you need any parts, you can always check us out at 1Aauto.com. Thanks.

Okay. So now that we've got the hood up, we're just going to come over here. We're going to grab this tube, give it a nice little tug. Then we'll set this out of the way. Now I'm going to go over to the other side. Over here, you'll notice there's a clamp right there. You can either use an eight millimeter socket, or you can use a flathead screwdriver. You do you, Boo Boo.

I'm going to grab my socket. I'm going to see if I can get it off of there. Got a socket, a nice little extension here. Let's give this a try. Now when I loosen this clamp, I'm not going to try to loosen it all the way to the point that it comes apart. These clamps are not the hardest to put back together. But it's just kind of a pain in the butt that you don't really need to deal with. Because essentially, this only has to be loose enough to get this up.

I'll show you what the clamp looks like once I get it off here. Let's see if that's far enough. Give this a little wiggle. Oh, yeah. All right. Now right here in the center, there's a little piton that goes down into a rubber. A little rubber bushing. I'm just going to grab this, give it a little lift. I'm going to bring it up like this. Okay.

On this side over here, there's a hose that runs to your breather. Just grab that, pull it off. That's where it connects to. Your air filter's located right in here, inside this clam shell. You just pop this, this, and this. It comes right out, easy peasy. Now would be a great time to do it. This is what the clamp looks like. It's got a lip. Basically it looks like this, a C. It goes over this part of the box, and then it goes underneath this part of the intake.

Okay friends, so it's time to get this put back together. We're going to take our gasket. You definitely do not want to forget your gasket. If you did, you'd more than likely be having dirty air getting sucked in past the air filter, and having dirty air sucked right into the engine. Which would be very bad. Gaskets on. We'll take this.

We have our little rubber. We've got our piton over here. That'll slide right onto there. It's going to come right over like this. Line that up with where it's going to go on there. Just like that. Very nice. Okay. All right, so now that we have this down, it's nice and flush, we're going to tighten up the clamp. To do that you can use your eight millimeter or your flathead. Go with the eight millimeter here again. Just get it on there.

Before I go too far, I'm just going to give it a little wiggle. I want to make sure that the clamp's down all the way around. Feels like it is for sure. Continue tightening it up. We want this to be nice and snug. It's very important. If it's loose, like I said before, you might have dirty air getting sucked past the air filter. That will be very bad for the engine.

Give this a nice little wiggle. It doesn't want to lift up. Looks like we're doing all right. We'll grab this hose. This just goes right on the back, right here. Slides on. There it is. That's the breather hose. Bonk bonk. All right, so we're going to connect this back in. A little push. There we are, give it a nice little tug. There we are. Easy peasy. Down the road we go.

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