1997 F53 Chassis Air Filter Mod

[4Scoop]

I'm not looking to modify what is in my 97 Ford 460 F53 but I need help with replacement parts. The guy who had the motor home before me obviously tried to change the air filter himself without finding out how to do it. By doing so he broke the entire housing part and then super gluing it back together adding some zip ties. Can someone tell me what I am all going to have to replace to get this back in the right working condition? It sounds like it is too much of a pain in the butt to do it myself so I asked a mechanic friend of mine who said he would do it if I found the parts. Do they even make the parts anymore? Will I have to check RV salvage yards? Thanks in advance!

[TeJay]

We had a 1999 34' V-10. Departed for Utah to visit our first GK heading West through Tulsa, OK and hit bad rain. Had all the symptoms of water being sucked into the engine. Stopped at the selling dealer and they added some dryer hose to fix the problem.

We departed the shop and again started our journey. The rain stopped but we encountered a few more hills and soon noticed the engine would not climb as before. Eventually I stopped and since the rain had also stopped I removed the dryer hose and the power came back. We continued our trip to Utah and even bigger hills with no return to the slow climbing as we experienced with the dryer hose attached.

I can only come up with one assumption regarding the dryer hose. Not a fan of using it ever again.

We now drive a 2013 F-53 with the V-10 and I also made several MODS to Fords new improved air inlet system which still also gets wet but perhaps not a bad as their earlier attempts. We've driven through several storms over the past 18 months with no apparent water ingestion.

[TeJay]

This is a thread on an air cleaner MOD that was started back in 2018.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...el2LbLlAkgyVe0

On post #19 are pics showing my idea. It's been on for 15,000 or more miles and even after driving through some storms and forgetting to move the funnels it didn't ingest any water.

My thinking is the height of the 4" PVC is to much for the water to make it into the filter housing. I also enlarged the filter box drain hole.