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suzi-q Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 87	oil filter change 09/23/10 at 17:42:02 did my first oil filter change.so easy and cheap too.love this ride
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Routy Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2280 Winston Oregon Gender:	Re: oil filter change Reply #1 - 09/23/10 at 18:40:55 Easy ? Compared to what ? Seems to me its a PITA compared to a spin on.
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EJID Serious Thumper Offline Work to ride and ride to work. Posts: 1536 Pocatello, ID Gender:	Re: oil filter change Reply #2 - 09/23/10 at 18:43:23 Good job! I agree that it was easy (relatively speaking of course) I expected it to be much more difficult than it was, but thanks to the tutorial on here it was "easy."
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Rogue_Cheddar Serious Thumper Offline Hang up the phone and drive! Posts: 725 Haverhill, Massachusetts Gender:	Re: oil filter change Reply #3 - 09/23/10 at 18:56:19 Did you make sure and replace the fogarty bevel on the phreniated plebney? You'd be amazed at how many people forget to do that!
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Wake51 Full Member Offline Murphy's Law Posts: 214 St. Louis Gender:	Re: oil filter change Reply #4 - 09/23/10 at 22:09:25 Where I live, the hardest part about the oil filter change was actually acquiring the filters! But it is a messy process. Nice to brag about dirty hands after the fact though.
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Lupo Senior Member Offline Posts: 356	Re: oil filter change Reply #5 - 09/23/10 at 22:14:50 Get a repair (maintenance) manual (Clymer) and do everything yourself. It's as much fun as riding.
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prechermike Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Kalashna Kitty, from Skat Posts: 1190 Ponzer, NC Gender:	Re: oil filter change Reply #6 - 09/24/10 at 02:41:20 Lupo wrote on 09/23/10 at 22:14:50: Get a repair (maintenance) manual (Clymer) and do everything yourself. It's as much fun as riding. Well, almost, but not quite!
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rl153 Serious Thumper Offline S40 Just right! Posts: 906 Bloomfield,CT Gender:	Re: oil filter change Reply #7 - 09/24/10 at 07:16:06 I'm going to do my first filter change next week . Does the filter sit on a tube of some sort,and how can you tell when its seated properly? Thanks.
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: oil filter change Reply #8 - 09/24/10 at 08:23:17 Just watch as you take the old one off,And put it back the same way,Its really not very complicated.
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Skid Mark Serious Thumper Offline FSO Posts: 1216 Calgary, Alberta Gender:	Re: oil filter change Reply #9 - 09/24/10 at 14:26:04 My C50 has a spin on oil filter. It's between the frame and it too can be a PITA. There's not a lot of room to grab hold of it. Like most things, it's easy once you figure out how. Kudos to you for "doing it yourself"!!!!
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: oil filter change Reply #10 - 09/25/10 at 07:53:48 I have several oil filter wrenches, most of them are a bit skippy, but they will work. I have one that is 1/2" drive with a strap, so itll get a spin on, from the end. I did mod it by getting rid of the plastic cap that retained the strap in its slot & replaced it with a piece of brass tubing.
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Reply #11 - 09/25/10 at 08:37:17

The worst I ever had was a V star 1100. You had to remove the right foot peg and brake pedal assembly just to get at and remove the chrome covered pot metal cover that covered the filter cover so that you could remove the filter cover. Then when you open the filter it was impossible to not have a flood of oil on the exhaust pipes which were so close together that it was difficult to wipe all the oil off when you were done.
You could buy an aftermarket kit that mounted a spin on filter out in front of the engine where it was vulnerable to rocks from the front tire or damage from road debris.
Yamaha really screwed the pooch when they came up with that one.

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Boofer Serious Thumper Offline Nearly too old. Posts: 1760 N Ms Gender:	Re: oil filter change Reply #12 - 09/25/10 at 20:08:58 Suzi, As far as an easy oil change, I say anything you can do while sitting on an upside down 5 gallon bucket with a few rags and 2 tools and a turkey roasing pan is pretty easy. (You neat freaks will probably want to use a funnel.)
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Trippah Serious Thumper Offline I ride, therefore I am. Posts: 2517 central Mass Gender:	Re: oil filter change Reply #13 - 09/26/10 at 19:07:22 Boofer,don' t you think the dark meat of a turkey is oily enough naturally.
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Reply #14 - 09/26/10 at 19:16:55

Trippah wrote on 09/26/10 at 19:07:22:

Boofer,don' t you think the dark meat of a turkey is oily enough naturally. Cheesy

Trippah, I am trying different oils and spices for basting my turkey. It's a toss up between Castrol synthetic and Rotella T Dino. I have to say the Rotella does have an edge on a good golden crisp skin. Does anyone on here have a preference? OOOPS? Did I say that?

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