oil filter access pt. 2 KML666 cheapo mod

[kml666]

On my HMF exhaust it is hard to access the oil filter. With the stock headers there was enough clearance to use a Suzuki filter wrench. No so with the HMF headers.

I purchased K&N filters with the nut on the end, thinking the nut would allow easy removal, alas the nut took up too much clearance to fit by the headers during installation, and I went back to the stock filters and then removing the stock filters with a sharpened screw driver, poke hole turn, poke another hole, turn some more.

I found my salvation at a Canadian Tire store. I purchases an oil filter wrench and, using a bench grinder narrowed the steel band enough to squeeze between the header and the filter.

Voila!!!

Easy on and easy off.

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cheers
ken

P.S. While using the bench grinder, it occurred to me, just grind the nut off the K&N filter and you can use those as well. I'm a happy man.

[dadofthree]

I just lube the o-ring and hand tighten. Never had a leak. Spins off with the same hand. On the factory filters I had to use my big set of channel locks. :thumbs up: