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Oldfeller--FSO Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Hobby is now "concentrated neuropany" Posts: 12639 Fayetteville, NC Gender:	Re: Oil filter prices rising fast .... Reply #30 - 08/17/12 at 17:35:04 Buying 5 oil filters cheap means more burger in the chili this week.
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clearush Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 261 Deer Park,TX Gender:	Re: Oil filter prices rising fast .... Reply #31 - 08/17/12 at 22:32:13 http://www.amazon.com/1996-2012-Suzuki-DR650-DR650SE-Filter/dp/B0087720QK/ref... $3.60 a piece shipped if you buy an 8 pack but only 3 sets left
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Oldfeller--FSO Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Hobby is now "concentrated neuropany" Posts: 12639 Fayetteville, NC Gender:	Re: Oil filter prices rising fast .... Reply #32 - 08/17/12 at 22:55:45 Got shipping confirmation on the $2.94 filters from the start of the thread, so I would say that they are for real. Buy as many as you can stomach, the $6.99 shipping doesn't increase for any quantity over 3 -- to right on up there.
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MarcosS40 Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 51 N. Central PA. Gender:	Re: Oil filter prices rising fast .... Reply #33 - 08/18/12 at 04:24:11 I just bought a HiFlo filter from MC Superstore for $3.99 and because I purchased enough other items, It was free shipping on the lot. Their warehouse is in Kentucky and I get the stuff in 2 days usually. It's fast and easy so I won't quibble over a few cents I might save elsewhere.
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Reply #34 - 08/18/12 at 04:42:14

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 08/17/12 at 17:35:04:

Buying 5 oil filters cheap means more burger in the chili this week.

Did you really just compare a quarterly expense to a weekly expense? And I'm pretty sure that if you laid down $20 for oil filters this week instead of spreading out that expenditure over the next year, you'd have a lot LESS money for chili this week.

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Reply #35 - 08/18/12 at 09:30:05

No, it was even worse.

5 motorcycle oil filters is a 5 year supply (multi-year car stuff expense) out of my pocket and the wife buys the weekly hamburger along with the rest of the groceries out of her monthly household cash flow -- it was actually a false premise "statement for effect" as the two were actually completely unrelated budget-wise.

But we were talking to Willy in Billish, so it really doesn't matter -- it made sense to him.

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Reply #36 - 08/20/12 at 12:44:58

Boofer wrote on 08/17/12 at 17:07:21:

Apparently you guys never buy groceries, or you wouldn't be so concerned over oil filters. Grin

Some things can be bought in bulk and will keep. If I find a particularly good bulk deal on groceries that I'd normally buy anyway, and they'll keep long enough for me to make use of them, I will often take advantage of that sort of thing. I'll buy a year's worth of razors or 3 month's worth of soap at Sam's. To me, oil filters work the same way. Fresh produce like tomatoes or bananas; not so much. There are exceptions there too, of course. I'll vacuum seal and freeze some stuff and dehydrate a few things. I haven't ever taken up canning though my mother and grandmother did when I was a kid. We'd get loads of stuff from the local farmer's market and spend days shucking corn, stringing beans, scrubbing and slicing cucumbers and okra, and washing figs, strawberries, etc. We'd have Ball and Mason jars full of pickles, relish, preserves and such that would last months or years on shelves in the garage. So yeah, buying in bulk is viable fo a lot of stuff, including some groceries. And, as stated above, I'll take my savings when I can. I have one motorcycle and I plan to keep her running for quite a few more years. A handful of oil filters is workable for me.

Almost forgot... I received my shipping confirmation this morning from the supplier listed at the beginning of this thread (oemcycle.com).

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Reply #37 - 08/20/12 at 13:14:23

Got my filters in, they honored cost and shipping so I have no beef at all with the low cost supplier.

Filters are different physically, with the Emgo and the Hiflo both coming in at 45 pleats but with the filter paper being thicker and more flat folded on the Hiflo and the width (or height) of the filter being 1/16" wider/longer than the Emgo.

Bypass valve entry hole is very slightly smaller on the Hiflow, but that could be simple punch wear in the tooling and not be a design item, in any case the diameter difference is trivial to the function of a bypass valve.

Emgo's have always been noted as being a little bit shorter than a stock Suzuki filter, so I would say the Hiflo is likely running closer to the stock filter in its width/height dimensions. OD diameter is same same with both filters, ditto for the spring recess.

In a stock Savage both filters will fit and function fine.

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Hey, for only $2.94 a filter, they ain't bad by anybody's estimation.

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Reply #38 - 08/20/12 at 13:23:49

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 08/20/12 at 13:14:23:

Got my filters in, they honored cost and shipping so I have no beef at all with the low cost supplier.

Filters are different physically, with the Emgo and the Hiflo both coming in at 45 pleats but with the filter paper being thicker and more flat folded on the Hiflo and the width (or height) of the filter being 1/16" wider/longer than the Emgo.

Bypass valve entry hole is very slightly smaller on the Hiflow, but that could be simple punch wear in the tooling and not be a design item, in any case the diameter difference is trivial to the function of a bypass valve.

Emgo's have always been noted as being a little bit shorter than a stock Suzuki filter, so I would say the Hiflo is likely running closer to the stock filter in its width/height dimensions. OD diameter is same same with both filters, ditto for the spring recess.

In a stock Savage both filters will fit and function fine.

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Hey, for only $2.94 a filter, they ain't bad by anybody's estimation.

The HiFlo is what was advertised at the oemcycle.com link near the beginning of this thread for $2.94. Did you use oemcycle.com and if so, did they send you HiFlo or Emgo?

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Oldfeller--FSO Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Hobby is now "concentrated neuropany" Posts: 12639 Fayetteville, NC Gender:	Re: Oil filter prices rising fast .... Reply #39 - 08/20/12 at 15:45:50 Yes, I used oemcycle.com and yes they shipped Hiflow filters.
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Savage_Rob Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Mechanically Inclined Amateur Posts: 6972 Texas (Dallas area) Gender:	Re: Oil filter prices rising fast .... Reply #40 - 08/23/12 at 15:15:58 Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 08/20/12 at 15:45:50: Yes, I used oemcycle.com and yes they shipped Hiflow filters. Thanks. Yeah, mine arrived today and are exactly as ordered.
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Reply #41 - 08/23/12 at 16:33:29

Not bad looking filters at all, actually. Look better than an EMGO, actually.

I am gonna cheat me a little cheat next time I take my big super magnet off my oil filter.

I am gonna use my little Chinese lathe and cut into one of the magnet flat faces by 1/16" deep and take that cut from the ID hole out to the OD size of the end cap of a Hiflofiltro oil filter unit.

Now, when I want to use a EMGO filter unit I will put the flat side of the magnet to the filter housing, and when I use a Hiflofiltro filter unit I will put the dished out side to the filter housing.

This way I can use either kind of filter at will, and I still have my bypass oil filter end space correctly maintained by my little cork strips while my bulky arsed super magnet stays all properly supported .....

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see, you can work your way past most unexpected things if you take a bit of time and just think your way through it.

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Reply #43 - 09/27/12 at 15:47:25

prechermike wrote on 09/27/12 at 15:33:36:

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 08/16/12 at 10:38:02:

I took the two most common filters, EMGO 10-85900 and the Hiflofiltro H137 and went to the Shopzillas of the world. Damme, but the prices were high and they varied all over the place.

Anyone happen to know the Wix number? or if they even make a filter to fit?

Doesn't look like they do. Tried various different brands for the filter cross ref part numbers and none of them will match up to a wix filter.

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Reply #44 - 09/27/12 at 18:55:20

I think I found a Fram number once but no one had it. I just gave up & got EMGOs on sale ay JCW.

Suzuki has some weird oil filters for some strange reason. And it doesn't get much better for their bikes with spin on filters like the C50.
They use a thread pitch different from everything else so there are few aftermarket filters that fit them. Cool

I have a lot more choices for my V-Star. Grin

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