HELP! What is this?
 

Car runs fine. Its oil not water. Why? I found this while cleaning my air filter (KN). Has anyone else has got this before?
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I would say the bottom of the box is from too much oil on the KN filter.

TB looks clean from the photo.

The oil in the tube.... check it out. If thick its motor oil, if thin its from the KN oil.

Clean MAF intake and tube.

Don't fill you oil too fast. It will go down the tube into the intake.

Best way to fix it is to put a filter on the oil filler and cap off the intake.

get a catch can/breather
easy fix

yeah tecknics (mazda tech) said to get a catch can, but he recommended other trouble shooting also, thane for comments

when you add oil, are you using a funnel? If not, you're pouring it too quickly and it's making its way into the intake.
use a small funnel, you should be fine.

Breather or catch can will help also but not always necessary.

Follow The funnel part.

and MAKE sure that you're not overfilling your motor oil.

nope, its not. Its motor oil. Ask me how I know :)

yea i agree with the slow oil pouring too, forgot to mention that in the PM :).

kevin.

thanks everyone, ill check in another thousand miles if it happens again.

Zumn: same thing happen to me when we changed out my intake but not that bad. get a catch can it will clear that right up. and like jedi said use a funnal and you will not have that problem.