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If you are using the socket style oil filter wrench and it spins on the end of the filter, place a shop towel over the face of the socket and force it onto the filter. Usually that will prevent it from slipping on a too tight filter. If that doesn't work, time for plan B. Nothing more annoying that dealing with an oil filter that was previously installed by a Gorilla....
Stab into side of filter with screwdriver, then you can push down to start unscrewing it. It has worked for me before.
I had a filter wrench like OPs, and on a friend's bike it broke the welds trying to get his filter off. I don't know who/how it was put on before, but it was a mother.
I had to drive a large screwdriver through the filter to get it to start to turn. That was after a strap wrench started collapsing the filter, and the old, "screw through the filter wrench into the filter" trick also broke another cap style filter.....
Last edited by hattitude; May 28, 2024 at 07:40 PM.
Glad you got it sorted out. As some have already mentioned, the oil filter relocation kit comes in handy and greatly reduces the mess of the oil change. I have lowers and mounted mine behind the primary. In your case you can mount it on the clutch side front down tube of the frame. Once you have one you will wonder why you waited so long?
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