How to Remove Air Box Housing 2015-19 Subaru Outback

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Hi, everyone. Sue from 1A Auto and today, I'm going to show you how to take the intake air dam off that goes into the airbox and mounts to the vehicle so we can take the dirt out of where the air filter sits. And 1A Auto sells the K&N air filters, so we like to show you how to do the maintenance on them. So you're going to disconnect the tabs on your airbox and just grab that. There's two plastic tabs on the Subaru that go straight down. Pull it up and your housing out, and then you can access this filter. This one's really dirty so it's a good one for us to show you.

So first thing I'm going to do is grab a flat blade screwdriver. Take these plastic tabs off. It's just a matter of twisting them. They're kind of fidgety like that. Sometimes you get a small screwdriver, you can pry up on it while you're turning it. There we go. Set that aside. Do the same to over here. Cool.

Now, we're just going to grab this area and pull forward. And that's the air intake to the air housing. There's no obstructions in there and no leaves. Just a little dust. But the housing is the one that I really want to clean and that has two mounting bolts. There's one here and one there, and it's a 10 millimeter socket.

So take this bolt out, and now you're going to have a little rubber bushing over here on an arm, there's a little metal arm right here. There's a rubber bushing on the end of that plastic tab. So I'm going to grab the housing firmly, pull up, and I'm going to weasel this up. Man. Look at all the dirt. So sometimes you have to clean the air filter housing. Also, not just the change your air filter or clean the filter. So I'm just going to go to a trash can, and I'm going to wipe the dirt out. There's a lot of grease in there. See if I can get as much of the big debris out as possible. Then all I'm going to take is some brake parts cleaner. I'm not going to spray inside that since that is the air expansion tank. I can take a clean rag and dry that, wipe it down, and reinstall it.

Now I'm ready to install it. Okay, so I've got that tab over here, the rubber bushing. That one again, so I'm just going to align it up and push it down. Pops right in it. I'll put the two mounting bolts in. Just start it by hand, make sure, and feel it catch. Definitely start both of them before you tighten one down. I'll just grab my 10 millimeter socket again with my extension to lock it down. It's a rubber bushing, so it just has to be snug. Now I can get the vent, line that up, and put it in place. Those two holes are going to line right up with those plastic body tabs. I'm just going to put them right in that, push down, and it snaps right into place.

So now I'm going to slide that filter back in. The deep pocket side goes towards the front of the car in the bucket, actually. Now, this cover has ear tabs on it on the bottom. You're going to line those up. See the little slotted hole, there? We've got one here, they run along the whole bottom of it. This filter's very cumbersome. There we go. Then the butterfly clips. I like push them right here on the expansion, they snap right down. And then you're all set.

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