Now that is a good idea Peanut! I may have to find a black pair of hose and have extra in hand sould they ever have time to build in mine. The oem airbox is not immune to those pesky things nor rats neither. My original plan when I bought the 2" black pipe that I didn't use was to add a small section of plastic pipe at the top 90 to turn up and add on one of the spin on type pre cleaners like another member had, but it would have already got caught in a tree limb this week if I had . I bought a plasma cutter years ago and one of those devils built a deep mud nest in the air intake. Thought I cleaned it out- no -little pieces of dirt got all in it and did a lot of damage.bordercollie