Damp air cleaner filter.

I'm guessing the damp was not a direct result of the rain.

We live in Darwin, and over Christmas when we had all the rain, all our clothes, sheets, soft furnishings were damp to the touch - it's an unfortunate fact of life during a monsoonal trough.

Of course, it depends how damp you are talking...

hi bros, normally there should be a little valve on the bottom of the air cleaner box to let out any water that is sucked in or picke up by the snorkel. i would check to see if this is blocked first of all.......

Bros, if you look closely at the head of the Ram type Snorkel intakes they have a stepped edge on the inner circle that mates with the top of the tube. It is designed so that, any water passing though the front hits the back of the ram and then as it runs down will pass out the back through the edge without going down the tube!

Well thats what the designers say anyway, Im would assume a fair amount of water vapour would pass through just due to the inertia, hence the drain bung (ducks bum) at the bottom of most air cleaners! Plus Toyotas have a cyclonic filter arrangement that spins the air as it enters the filter, so any water or heavy particulate is thrown outwards and not allowed to make the turn into the filter. Again, utilising the drain at the bottom!
As said before, so they say!

The round head type are a precleaner type, very usefull in heavy dust, just look at a country Veh, the round precleaner is FULL of dust! So they must be good for that, otherwise that would be left entirely up to your filter to remove!

Hope that helped
MAtt.

When i drive in heavy rain with my donaldson precleaner water does enter the dust collector bowl so i have drilled two 3mm approx holes in the lowest point of the collector bowl & the water drains out

1 hole is at the lowest point when stationary & the other is at the rear of the bowl when driving

Regards Don

mate it is probably the wetness from behind his ears