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I consider myself an evolving environmentalist, although my wife has to occasionally remind me to recycle cardboard cereal boxes and defunct newspapers, and my nostalgia for old-fashioned boatyard fragrances like red-lead primer and tung-oil varnish continues unabated. While progress on the evolutionary has been slow though, it’s also been sure. For months now,
  • By Mike Smith
  • November 1, 2008
<p>While removing the old air cleaner I had to be careful not to tear the rather sticky underlying gasket.</p>

While removing the old air cleaner I had to be careful not to tear the rather sticky underlying gasket.

Because the Walker plenum’s thinner than the old cleaner, I had to substitute four shorter bolts.

The hose clamp that secures the tubular connector to the Walker Airsep unit is top-shelf.

That’s the vent cap (red) just a few inches from Walker’s negative-pressure-inducing vacuum regulator (black).

The plug that holds the check-valve fitting slides snugly into the oil-sump-access fitting on the engine’s side.

An aesthetically pleasing sight! Especially once the smudges are removed from the chrome dome.

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