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Old May 19, 2010 | 08:36 AM
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1+ on using an old plastic bottle
 
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Old May 19, 2010 | 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Clint55
I've had real good luck with this 2 ltr pop bottle cut like this. I can work it all the way up and over the filter and big cut out gives me plenty of room to get the filter wrench on.


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Thats exactly what I use.
 
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Old May 19, 2010 | 08:54 PM
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I use old HD advertisement brochures half rolled under the filter and a small rag on top of front motor mount, never had a spill yet . Nothing to save or clean all recyclable stuff.
 
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Old May 19, 2010 | 10:18 PM
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The oil filter drain catcher sold under the H-D logo might work fairly well except when you have a cylinder base cover installed. This cover, H-D or Kuryakyn, interferes with the placement of the catcher to the extent that unscrewing of the filter is essentailly impossible because these covers go over the crankshaft pickup.. I have one but have yet to use it because of the difficulty described above. I would suspect that all of the "oil catchers" described in the previous posts might suffer similar problems.
 
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