VFR Servicing

(SteveH) wrote in message

Plus gas the fucker and try again in a couple of days. It must be the
rubber seal stuck, failing that try (some) heat. Hot air gun rather
than a blow torch (maybe).

Hot air gun again. Also try plus gas, WD40 is shite.

 

LOL

Superb

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I share your pain, brother. Many's the time I've cursed the ham-fisted
**** who'd replaced the filter before me.

 

When did they start making VFRs then?

 

I bought an identical oil filter tool to this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=30917&item=7982237827&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
the other week, knowing I had to do Elly's on the 9R and the car. I'd
struggled a bit(1) doing a Bandit12 filter(2) a couple of weeks before
- access is pretty crap on bikes generally and you can't get big grips
in on cars like what you used to.

There's some big serrated teeth on the jaws of this tool, that really
bite into the filter casing and long handles mean loads of leverage
available. Managed to get the filter off the 9R without removing any
plastic, not even the bellypan. The Peugeot filter was stuck so tight
that I know the assortment of chains and straps I have in the box
would have either slipped round or cut through it - and that's messy.

I'd recommend you try these pliers - they're even a pretty good price.



1. A lot.
2. Resorted to the usual small sharp cold chisel on the rolled-over
base of the filter, picked up a little roll of metal and then hit it
with a drift. This was after removing the bellypan, trying the
proper-type removal tool, failing to get access through the headers
with chain wrench, having insufficient space to turn the strap wrench
and couldn't see how to turn the old screwdriver if I'd punched it
through the filter.

 

Pip scribbled on the back of a napkin:

They are rather good - that's the same type of pliers I recently bought
of Halfrauds, the oil filters on my cars and bikes have found me
irrestible since.

 

Bought a set of those from Halfords - but there's not enough room to get
a proper grip on the filter with them. They'll be handy for working on
the cars, though.

The old favourite of a 1/2 inch drive chain worked a treat in the end.

 

Hey, this is the safe option; I didn't say 'blowtorch'

 

Heh. I thought of advocating that, before I considered the implications
of using a blowtorch on a leaky oil filter.

Don't forget - last time I used a blowtorch, I set my speedo cable on
fire.

 

I've got one of those - a decent chain wrench - and they're excellent.

 

Frustrating thing was that I had one in the garage all the time, but
couldn't remember where I'd put it. Then it turned up once the job was
finished.

 

Ah, The Tool Fourth Dimension.

Happened to me the other day with the Mini-Maglite.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SteveH

I see you're sorted. I was going to suggest the technique used by one of
the teams at Snetterton this afternoon. They very neatly removed their
SP2's oil filter by the simple expedient of snapping a con-rod, so that
the filter got punched clean off the cases by the flailing end.

It all looked a tad spendy, especially given the "HRC" logo on the
cases...


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Wicked Uncle Nigel says...

I'm pretty sure all SP2s have HRC embossed on the cases.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

Ah. Still won't be cheap though, eh?

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and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
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Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel says...

I doubt that very much.

 

It's the gremlins, innit.

You put a socket down next to you, pick another one up to do a job,
reach back for the socket that was just there ----> and it's gone.

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In extremis. I find it a slightly uncouth and bloody messy way of doing
it.

 

I've had one a Sealy oil filter grip/wrench things for some years and
it's never failed me.

 

I did that on my old mini - bloody hard to hammer the screwdriver through
the filter. Then I discovered that the filter wasn't a spin-on canister
type afer all, and that what I'd hammered the screwdriver through was
actually a permanent, bolted on filter housing. Oops.