The chrome filter got swapped for a fram ultra, so no more sacrilege.
A Fram?! Thats a far greater sin than the chrome filter!
might as well just have rolled up the cardboard you used removing the old filter and stuck it in a beer can and put it on there for a filter! I wouldn’t put a Fram filter on my neighbors Honda!
oh and BTW a chrome filter isn’t sacrilege on black engines if you have a chrome primary and rocker box cover IMO.
Last edited by 2500hdon37s; 02-15-2023 at 11:10 AM.
I generally use the oil-catcher thing-a-ma-bob under the filter but it seems no matter how careful I am there is oil that makes it to the floor…
No more - thanks to the cardboard!
I’ve got the same HD filter “mess saver” for me I find it works well if you get the filter loose enough to hand turn it off before oil comes out of it. Then take the oil-catcher thing-a-ma-bob and hold it snug by pushing toward the filter housing. And then spin the filter off by hand. Works pretty well for me at not making a mess.
Once filter is off, dump that mess in a pan and wipe up what is coming out of the filter housing with a shop towel and screw on new filter.
Last edited by 2500hdon37s; 02-15-2023 at 11:08 AM.
A Fram?! Thats a far greater sin than the chrome filter!
might as well just have rolled up the cardboard you used removing the old filter and stuck it in a beer can and put it on there for a filter! I wouldn’t put a Fram filter on my neighbors Honda!
oh and BTW a chrome filter isn’t sacrilege on black engines if you have a chrome primary and rocker box cover IMO.
That is absolutely not true.... When I sheared my crank pin and it ground down the inside of my case, all the aluminum was caught by the filter only... It Never went back through the system.. No oil tank, no feed to the oil pump nothing.. The Fram filter is better than most give it credit for and here's the pictures...
A Fram?! Thats a far greater sin than the chrome filter!
might as well just have rolled up the cardboard you used removing the old filter and stuck it in a beer can and put it on there for a filter! I wouldn’t put a Fram filter on my neighbors Honda!
oh and BTW a chrome filter isn’t sacrilege on black engines if you have a chrome primary and rocker box cover IMO.
Lol. Fram Ultra’s are one of the best oil filters out there. The orange can frams however, yea they’re junk.
On my Evo, I would drain the oil, let the bike sit on the jiffy stand for a day, remove the filter and have zero mess.
Never tried it on my old TC but assume it should work the same in my recently purchased TC.
Figured I’d throw this out there in case it could help someone. Got a funnel kit off amazon that had a primary funnel, skinny funnel, and a funnel that went under the oil filter to catch the oil drain from it. Well of course it wouldn’t fit so I improvised. Makeshift cardboard funnel viola!
All I use.. I even cut it not so high so I don't need to unbolt anything.
I do put one old rag under it that I pull out last.
A trick I have learned on the TC Softails is I use a cut off paper towel roll cardboard tube. I use it on the transmission drain up between the two rear shocks.
02-15-2023, 11:03 AM
