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This RedRock 4x4 Cold Air Intake Kit in wrinkle black is for those of you that have a 2012

to 2018 JK that has a 3.6 liter engine and are looking for a way to get a little bit

more throttle response, a little bit more noise from underneath the hood of your Jeep

and additional MPG or two.

This is going to be something that will install very easily into your Jeep.

Definitely a one-out-of-three-wrench install, and we'll talk a little bit more about that

in just a second.

So, a cool air intake, in general, will give you some more power, but it really depends

on the engine and if the intake is really a choking point or not.

On your Jeep with the 3.6 liter engine, the intake is not really a point of restriction,

so by opening it up and adding a cool air intake, you're gonna get a little bit of a

cooler air charge, but you're not going to get a ton more air and because you're not

adding a tune with this cold air intake, I wouldn't expect to notice a ton of additional

power.

A little more throttle response, a little bit more sound from underneath the hood and

maybe an MPG or two is what you should be expecting from this.

This is also going to give you a reusable conical filter, which is going to be nice

especially if you do any wheeling in some dry and dusty areas.

You can clean out the air filter, pop it back on again instead of having to change it out.

Now, that is one very important note to make about any cold air intake in general.

If you are somebody who does a lot of wheeling in wet areas, you do a lot of water crossings,

I would not recommend a cold air intake.

This is going to delete your factory air box which can also help to keep some water out

of the engine and this will make it a little bit easier to suck water in if you are doing

some deep water crossing.

So, you do wanna be a little bit careful with that.

In the world of cold air intakes, this one is priced very appropriately.

I think some of the other ones that are basically the same thing.

You're getting a tube, a filter, and a little bit of a shield that are a lot more expensive,

you just don't really know what you're paying for.

Here, I think you're still getting something high-quality, looks good, works well, and

it's gonna be less expensive than some of those other options.

So for construction, you are getting the tube.

Again, this is covered in the wrinkle black coating.

You have your spot for your sensor here.

No need to drill any type of holes.

You are getting that conical filter that is washable and reusable.

And over here, you're getting a shield and that's designed to keep you from pulling the

warm air that's already underneath the hood of your Jeep and instead pulling the colder

air from the outside of your Jeep.

Now, this isn't perfect.

This isn't a fully enclosed air box with just one intake that's down in the fender or right

in the grille, so you're still gonna get a little bit of a mix of warm and cool air,

but it is designed to give you a cooler charge than you would get from that factory air intake

system.

This Cold Air Intake Kit comes in right around $150 and like I said, I think that's gonna

be a good deal for you.

If you want one of those fully enclosed systems, they're of course gonna be more expensive,

there's more material there, more parts, more cost.

There are also some that have a couple other different little features built in here or

there, different things to let you know if your filter is getting dirty, those types

of things.

And those are all going to add cost.

This is going to be a much simpler cold air intake system that's still gonna do the job

while saving you some money.

Now, a member of the install team will show you how to get this bolted up to your JK.

We'll begin by removing the PCV hose and then we're gonna disconnect the IAT sensor down

here and just squeeze on that, and then it'll unplug.

Next, we're gonna loosen up the clamp that holds the intake tube to the throttle body.

Next, using a 10-millimeter socket, we're gonna remove these two bolts.

Next, we're gonna remove the whole air intake and airbox set up.

You can do this by just prying up on it removing the whole assembly.

First step to this install, we're gonna assemble part of the heat shield.

You're gonna take this bottom piece with this cutout and we're gonna place this cut out

on that one.

This piece is gonna inside of this.

Now, they provide you with six Allen headed screws.

We're gonna install those through the outside like this and then we're gonna place a washer

and a nut on there.

So now that we have all six of the screws in, we're gonna go around and tighten those

up.

The Allen head is a 3-millimeter and the nut is a 7-millimeter.

So now that we have our box assembled, we are ready to install it into the vehicle.

We're gonna take the two long bolts provided.

We're gonna insert them through these two holes.

After we do that, each one is gonna get a spacer.

These two bolts are gonna go through these two mounting points for the factory air box.

So, we wanna lower this down in there, make sure that our spacers don't fall off.

So now that we have that in, we're gonna go ahead and remove one of these screws from

the radiator.

So, we're going to remove this screw here in the top side of the fan.

You're gonna use an 8-millimeter socket to remove that.

Once we have that out, we're gonna save that and we'll assemble our box.

That screw is gonna go back in through a hole on the side of this and into there.

So, for the two bolts that we inserted with the spacers, you will need to go in through

the wheel well and install a washer and a nut.

So, we're gonna go ahead and do that.

So, that screw that we saved that was an 8-millimeter, we're gonna go ahead and insert that through

the heat shield and back into the fan shroud.

Once that's in, we can go ahead and tighten it up using our 8-millimeter.

Once we have that tight, we're gonna switch to our 10-millimeter and we're gonna go ahead

and tighten these two lower bolts down here.

Next, we're gonna take our supplied rubber gaskets, we're gonna install them onto the

heat shield.

First, we're gonna take the larger of the two and we're gonna place that on the top.

Next, we're gonna take the smaller of the two gaskets, we're gonna install that inside

the intake tube hole.

Then, we're just gonna trim this excess off.

Next, we're gonna take the IAT sensor out of the factory intake.

We're gonna install it in our aftermarket one.

We're gonna note the position.

To remove it out of the factory, we're gonna need to turn it counter clockwise and it's

gonna have to come over a little lock.

So, we're just gonna turn it a quarter turn then we'll wiggle it out and then we're gonna

put it in our aftermarket one in the same direction.

So if you just wiggle it back and forth, press it in, you can get it in there.

Note the orientation.

Now, that we have this installed, we're ready to install it in the car.

So, it's a little bit of a tight fit, we decided to get this on the throttle body first.

We're gonna install one of our clamps.

Loosen it up a little bit.

You have to slide it up and over.

Spin it a little bit, so it's out of the way.

Now, we can slide our other clamp on.

Slide our intake tube into the heat shield and then we can slide our tube into that coupler.

Once we get that in, we can tighten our clamp up.

So, the next step, we're gonna install the filter with the supplied clamp.

We're just gonna slide that onto the end of the intake.

Once we get it on, we're gonna tighten that clamp up with a flathead screwdriver.

Next, we're gonna reinstall the PCV hose and place one of our clamps on there.

Slide that on, tighten it up.

Place our other clamp on the other side.

Slide that onto the tube.

Next, we're gonna use our supplied hold downs to hold the coolant overflow line.

So, we're gonna slide that line into there and then we're gonna reuse these bolts that

we removed at the beginning.

And the last thing, we're gonna plug in the IAT sensor.

So, if you're looking for an inexpensive and easy to install cold air intake for your JK,

I would definitely recommend this option from RedRock 4x4, and you can find it right here

at extremeterrain.com.