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No, just 2 bolts and you remove that aluminium look box with the 14V stamp plus the 2 cables. An example from other vehicle: When you take it in your hands open it and you will find something like These inside, check for worn signs. In the "old type" altenators like your this is easy, in modern altenator models this task can not be done except if you go to the repair shop to lift the car high.

Of course ! 2 bolts and it's out then you can make the indpection for the brushes, you can buy new ones and install them. No need to buy new and expensive parts before it's 100% sure that you need them, i have done the same mistake in the past.

If you drive in ''muddy'' roads keep them, me i got rid of them after so many years.

No we don't. Check the cable and the spring, don't overdoo in grease, first clean thouroughly and then apply a light coat. Had similar problem few years ago, pressing the clutch pedal was pulling together the brake pedal and vice versa.

A friend of mine asked a manufacturer of aluminium expansion tank about ''heat exchange'' with the engine bay. The answer was '' is not significant".

Same code, one (top) bought in a parts store and the other (beneath) is from an e-store. Look the same in diameter but as you can see they have a difference in the end. The original seals better with the plastic socket of the air filter and the other of the engine cover. Plus when it's time to bent it a little bit for some degrees (factory specifications) the original has no problem at all when the other has, it bent easily and narrows the air flow a bit. Waist of money and time, soon i will replace the after market with the original.

Where in the engine is that pipe?

The days of late 80's that i was in school are far away that's why i can't understand why the air from 56mm in the end of the air filter box it cannot be driven at the 56mm of the throttle. It will lose what? Speed, smooth flow? No cone tubes, no 65mm hose, no Γ style inside the cover ,no narrowing, just straight ''take and give'' air in the same diameter. 😊

That's for the idle or low rpm or this applies to higher rpm also?

You know what's happening with small motorcycles which don't have a RPM gauge, whey the see (and hear from distance) and after market noisy exhaust. The procedure is certain https://www.tosynergeio.gr/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=59:2010-05-05-07-02-00 but if you don't have Homologation papers for that racing style exhaust (and nobody has a licence to have that exhaust in a daily motorcycle) you will get a fine. If you don't agree and get this to the curt things will get only worst except if you are a lawyer or you have time and money to spend to argue with the Police.

I wonder the guys which remove the factoty filter-hoses and buy-install filters like this which have the same diameter from A to Z don't have issues with the speed of the incoming air?

Even their radar detectors (aka "pistols") are not propely calibrated but they still give tickets to drivers even for 5-10 km overspeeding. In the past i have seen Police mini-vans with portable equipment checking emissions and db noise especially the motorcycles.

If they got the equipment and the willing to give fines (tickets) because the Chief asked it, they will.

I wonder why Skoda make a conical tube (less that 56mm) inside the filter box and in the end of it at 56mm attacked a hose about 65mm and in the end of it drove it to a an Γ shape pipe (inside the plastic cover) and from 6mm make it 56mm in the throttle. What's the meaning of this whole process? What's the ''disadvantage'' for the air from 56mm at the filter box to end straight at 56mm at the throttle?

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@Papez Here is mine as is now (outside) That plastic pipe is fitted here? because i have never seen it before.

The car was running about 15 years without it.🤓 Even if we have an aftermarket filter (gauze for example) need it?

I have that cone now installed, what i don't have is this Γ (45 degrees) shape plastic hose on the right.

Something is missing at the exit to the throttle or not?

I have seen has something like adaptor which narrows down the exit perimeter a bit, i haven't measure it if is about 56mm as the throttle.

IF (let's say hypothetically) the pipe in the air filter box becomes smaller (now it's 65mm outside) equal to the throttle body (outside is about 56mm) there would be a difference in performance? The factory made it in purpose so the air now have more pressure?

A washer and a U shaft safety ,i don't know the exactly word in english, here we call the Halfmoon safety.

Yes i know it but it's double cost, that part plus the other one to connect it with the throttle and how about the sealing of these parts? Wouldn't be fragile? Sealed, the internal clap does not work all the times, if it gets stuck closed then the whole day the filter sucks hot air from the engine. This in a highway trip would be a disaster, high rpm + hot air only in the throttle. I wonder why 56mm from one side and 65mm on the other, has something to do with the pressure that the incoming air is driven into the throttle? One thread of the air intake manifold is damaged (has 3) plus every time i want to inspect-lubricate the gas petal wire-check the sensor-clean the throttle etc i had to remove 3 bolts plus the air filter hose. Plus the plastic absorbs heat and takes time to cool off.

Yes, i have done it to mine, keep in mind i have a/c and a fan with 6 black blades.

Yes, i don't touch that hose. And now the sad news, that black cover can not be removed because: The throttle body is about 56mm wide and the end of the plastic tube of the air filter is 65mm wide, so there is some kind of ''funnel'' which is difficult to replace it with a hose. The end of the plastic box has a gasket but even there is not possible to tighten the clamp of the hose. I don't want to start a project making an aluminium adaptor to make the throttle body 65mm and the connect it with a hose with the air filter box.