oil filter
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From: sand mountain Alabama
oil filter
I am starting to change my own fluids and trying to figure out how to get the oil filter off without making a mess. I have a 07 Ultra with premium cooler.
Any ideas that might work.
jim
Any ideas that might work.
jim
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From: Bellevue, NE
RE: oil filter
Try cutting the bottom out of a 2 liter pop bottle and running your socket/extension through the small hole. \\; Slip the big hole under and around the filter while you wrench it off. \\; Most important thing in the long run it to try to keep the oil off of that front motor mount. \\; \\;Good luck, it ain't easy!
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From: sand mountain Alabama
RE: oil filter
Thanks i heading out to give it a try. When I installed the oil cooler I put a piece of tin foil it didn't work to good. Your right it isn't easy.
again thank you
jim
again thank you
jim
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From: The Frozen North - Hastings Michigan
RE: oil filter
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 \\;The way I've been doing it, and loose very little oil is to make a trough out of tin foil, and kinda shove it up under the filter and down to a pan. THEN, take a long pointed punch and poke a hole in the end of the filter near the botom, and \\; one near the top of the filter \\;(you \\;wern't going to use the filter again anyway) let the oil drain out of \\;hole in the \\;filter into your tin foil trough. when it's done draining, spin off the filter. You will find out you have very little oil to wipe up.
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 \\;G wizz
 \\;The way I've been doing it, and loose very little oil is to make a trough out of tin foil, and kinda shove it up under the filter and down to a pan. THEN, take a long pointed punch and poke a hole in the end of the filter near the botom, and \\; one near the top of the filter \\;(you \\;wern't going to use the filter again anyway) let the oil drain out of \\;hole in the \\;filter into your tin foil trough. when it's done draining, spin off the filter. You will find out you have very little oil to wipe up.
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 \\;G wizz
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From: murfreesboro tn.
RE: oil filter
i use cardboard to slide under filter. poke hole let it drain. DO NOT USE CHEMICALM CLEANERS AROUND FRONT MOTOR MOUNT! rubber very sensitive to chems will deteiorate and crumble in a very short time
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RE: oil filter
The 2 litre bottle works very well, if you feel like spending your money J&\\;\\\\\\;P cycles has a oil drip pan that fits up against the filter and catches the mess. It cost about $20.
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http://www.jpcycles.com/productgroup...4-9B8C541CC8FC
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http://www.jpcycles.com/productgroup...4-9B8C541CC8FC
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RE: oil filter
Well, for me, I tried the plastic bottle thing, the foil thing...I just jam a bunch of paper shop towels under the filter...I have yet to find something that works without a mess...Good luck...
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RE: oil filter
I use the gear lube bottle (from my trans change) as a funnel. \\; \\;I've cut it to fit and it works well. \\; You can also take the box the filter comes in and fold it flat placing it under the filterto form \\;a make-shift funnel. \\; I like the quality of a K&\\;N filters and the removal nut manufactured on the end that lets you remove it easily.
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