Removing leaves from front

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Turbo Doc

Discussion Starter · Dec 10, 2014

How do you get the leaves out of the front air cooling intakes? I can't find a vacuum attachment long and thin enough to get between the grill strakes and back to the aft part of the duct.

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CA_MP4

· #2 · Dec 10, 2014

24" flexible 4 finger claw tool - slow, but it gets the job done, particularly removing bird carcasses wedged in there on occasion

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Battery powered leaf blower works well. Compressed air is ok too if the pressure is not too high. This way you don't scratch your intake vanes with a vac attachment. Blowing air in the front seems to get everything out.

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extremeride22

· #4 · Dec 10, 2014

Maybe driving a lot faster and trying to avoid sucking up those damn leaves oh and more importantly birds and vermin.

Cheers......??

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brambleworth

· #5 · Dec 10, 2014

This thread reminded me that I haven't cleaned out the front in a while, so I used my Master Blaster car dryer and it worked great, blew out about a 1000 leaf pieces from the two sides.

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Turbo Doc

Discussion Starter · #6 · Dec 10, 2014

Found what I need; cheap plastic tubing to attach to the end of the shop vac and get the debris out of there.

http://www.shopvac.com/shopvac-accessories/Products/VaccUFlex-Attachment-Kit__919-99-00.aspx

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Periokid

· #7 · Dec 11, 2014

I use a crevice attachment and it works to get about 90% out. I then use a leaf blower and that gets some more out. I have noticed that some leave a actually behind the mesh that is supposed stop the leaves. I have not figured out how to get that out yet.

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FatFrank

· #8 · Dec 11, 2014

brambleworth said:
This thread reminded me that I haven't cleaned out the front in a while, so I used my Master Blaster car dryer and it worked great, blew out about a 1000 leaf pieces from the two sides.

Never even looked in mine.......sounds like I'd better do so

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Periokid

· #9 · Dec 15, 2014

FatFrank said:
Never even looked in mine.......sounds like I'd better do so

Definitely take a look. The front of the car is like a leaf vacuum.

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Brownie

· #10 · Nov 11, 2021

Bringing a thread back from the dead. Just got back from a two day trip to drive the mountain roads in NC, GA and TN. Absolutely awesome, not much traffic, did the classics - Cherohala, Tail of the Dragon, Hwy 129…great stuff and car ran like a champ. However, it is peak leaf dropping season and some of the lesser used roads were carpeted in leaves. Got back home and had to fish out an amazing amount of leaves. Crazy. Btw the water under my car was already there when I parked lol.

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421t

· #11 · 4 mo ago

Hello
Does anyone got leaves or dusts behind the meshes (between the radiators and the meshes) ? And did you manage to get them off ?
I didn't found anyway to get these meshes out without undoing all the front of the car.
Any idea ?
thank you

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