So I went to clean my air filter today for the first time, and for the love of all things holy, I spent over an hour trying to remove this last f'ing screw.

I pretty much took apart everything around it, but still can't get this goddamn thing out. The screw just turns in place. I've tried using a pair of pliars to yank it out, but no luck... any suggestions?

 

Did you try putting a flat head under the lip of the screw and try to pry it up a little? Sounds stripped...

 

I have the same problem on my IceBox. I ended up prying the cover out and pulling the stud together with it. I replaced the screw with a regular long (thin) screw to secure the cover back. It seems to hold it for about 10k miles now.

 

Clean the engine bay

 

Comptech had problems with this when the icebox came out. When it happen to my icebox I called comptech and they sent me a new top.

 

yea ive seen that happen with others. the nut in the plastic starts to spin in it

 

You mean they sent you a new cover? That would not work since the place that messed up is the stud/bolt which was embedded to the bottom filter box. Unless Comptech sent you the entire top and bottom box, it may not help solve this issue.

BTW, were you still under warranty when you had this issue?

 

Sorry...I wanted to say they sent me a the bottom part of the box. give them a call