Perhaps a project this small wouldn't normally be newsworthy. Yet when I began, I hadn't yet found the K&N instructions, so I started to photograph everything. Now I don't want my documentation efforts to go to waste!
Up until now I'd simply been resting the K&N X-Stream Custom Assembly on the Edelbrock 1407--I hadn't fastened it down properly. I noticed that I received a sack of odds and ends with the K&N but figured it would be self-explanatory when I got to this stage; it wasn't (for me at least)!
Y'all can click on any of these images to see much larger editions.
Here are the K&N instructions:
Here's how it had been resting. I screwed the long stud in to the carburetor just to make guide the assembly for easy filter re-installation.
And here are all the K&N doo-dads! I put letters next to each of them anticipating some expert FORDification advice on how K&N intended the parts to go together--then I found the instructions. I would have never figured it out on my own, without the instructions. Not fully shown in the photo is a neoprene gasket that goes between the filter's bottom plate and the carburetor.
This doo-dad sack had this label on it:
Before the instructions, I'd reasoned that the rubber washer was probably related to the similar cavity in the top of the filter. I eyeballed it in a primal fashion, waiting for my brain cells to jolt in to formation--they did not.
This photo has no meaning, yet the focus came out too nice not to post it.
Here I'm on K&N Step 5, using the straight edge to set the proper height for the lower nylock nut.
And for K&N Step 6, I measured 1 and 1/4" out from the nylock, and marked it with an opaque paint marker.
I then applied a fine machinist's instrument for a precise cut.
After cleaning up the end with a file and running a grade eight nut over threads a few times to ensure their suitability, I re-installed the stud (using an included jam nut at the bottom, to hold it down in the carburetor). After re-setting the nylock nut to the proper height, I got to K&N Step 8--I placed a steel washer on the stud, which rested on top of the nylock nut.
Then the mysterious rubber washer finally appeared, right where it seemed most natural; here I'm finishing steps 9 through 12.
The finished product! It will be nice to run the engine without the air cleaner tap-dancing on the carburetor! Not to mention the profound peace of mind I'll feel while driving slowly through a vast, dense cloud of duck feathers.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Robroy
