Right oil filter?
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Someday maybe,people will not submit to all the misinformation,hearsay myths,etc. that is forever regurgitated in these discussions.
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Suit yourself. The filters will cross over if you go by the specifications. Look it up yourself, I have. Toyota RN Truck v. HD Evo. Even the drain back and pressure release valve specs are the same. Go to the WIX web site and look up the specs. Do you really think that the MoCo manufactures oil filters? Where? They just buy quality private label filters, like JD does, and I think they use the same supplier as "SuperTech" at Wally World. So your HD super special filter is probably just a Wally World filter with a different paint job.
Anyway, in 80+K miles on my bike and 50K+ on Dr.Linda's, it doesn't seem to have hurt them so far. 'Course, we ain't riding twinkies which might overheat or blow a cam shaft tensioner if you look at them funny or something.
Anyway, in 80+K miles on my bike and 50K+ on Dr.Linda's, it doesn't seem to have hurt them so far. 'Course, we ain't riding twinkies which might overheat or blow a cam shaft tensioner if you look at them funny or something.
does a ford filter fit as jap bike? why would i put a jap filter on my evo. should put toyota oil in too?
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You can look at the TC filter and see it has a diahpram over the holes where the EVO filter does not. One comes in a silver box the other box is black. The TC needs less oil flow and the EVO needs more oil flow.
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It could be a mistake in the listing. In 99, Twin Cam A and Evo were both in production. Evo production stopped when the Twin Cam B came out a short time later. Some catalogs get screwed up during transition years like that. When I used to work at a retail auto parts store, I would see that kind of thing all the time.
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I agree it could have been a screw up in the parts book, and maybe in the manual that came with the bike, but it is still on Harley's parts listing on their web site. No where have I ever seen that the 99 EVO takes the older filter. The only thing I can come up with is that there must be some difference between the 99 and earlier EVO's. Or else everything including Harley's parts web site is still wrong.
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I dont have that answer but I have read before where the TC in the beginning had too much oil going thru it and maybe the diffrent filter remedied that? 1999-2000 was the transition years. Far as I know all Evo's are the same oil flow.
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