Cold Air Intake Systems for your Truck or SUV. Dodge Cummins Install.

One of the most popular aftermarket options I hear about is permanent air filters (washable) and cold air intake systems. It makes since to get more air to your engine for more power. Air filters are the life of your truck. A diesel drinks 18,000 gallons of air with one gallon of diesel fuel. Back on the farm we use to wash our secondary air filters for tractors about three times before we discarded them. It makes economic since as well as landfill conservation to use an air filter that can last 1,000,000 miles instead of throwing away the paper filters.

aFe introduced air filters and cold air intake systems made for the dirty conditions rural areas have, called Pro-GUARD 7.  It's made from 5 layers of progressively finer mesh medical-grade gauze and 2 layers of random-porosity non-woven synthetic fabric. Pro-GUARD 7 is washable and gives your engine more air for more power and better fuel economy.

I appreciate a product I can look at and see the quality difference. That was the first thing I noticed about the aFe OEM replacement air filter, the polyurethane seal was thicker, and softer to fit the trucks air box completely for the seal to convert all the incoming air threw the filter.

I went to All-State Horse Express in Colorado Springs to install an aFe cold air intake system with the Pro-GUARD 7 filter. These folks have a fleet of Dodge diesel trucks and horse trailers that go cross country daily.

All-State Horse Express puts from 100 to 150,000 miles on each of their 8 horse aluminum trailer. So you can imagine how many miles the trucks go. Darrel Hobbs is in charge of maintaining their trucks and trailers. He services the trucks on the conservative side to ensure the horses get to their destinations without a hitch.

 Darrel installed the aFe intake kit below to the 2002 Dodge 3500 cab and chassis to test the performance and economy of the all new Pro-GUARD 7 air filter. I've have an update on my website to see how it did. All-States trucks are driven by a two man team with a sleeper, flatbed and larger fuel tank added to the Dodge 3500 duallys.

Factory flat filter, doesn't have the surface area of the aFe cone shaped filter

Factory air box goes bye-bye

Re-installing the air filter change gauge.

Placing the rubber protective lip on the new aFe air box.

Everything fits, replaced the factory air box. Now there will be some deep breathing from this Cummins, and we're done

Thanks to All-State Horse Express at www.horse-express.com and aFe air filters at www.afefilters.com for their help.