Daily Archives: November 5, 2012

Check for seal when removing oil filter

by Chuck Carter from a Facebook post
So, here I am changing my oil and filter on my R1100RT, that I have done bookoo times, right? Old filter comes off, great! New filter, not so good! After 30 minutes of struggling to get that stupid thing screwed on, I finally compared the two filters, Hmmm, the new filter has a rubber gasket, the old one does not! Crap. So, after scraping the old one off from the oil filter area with my fingernails, in the next 30 seconds, I was done. Go figure……Just a heads up, gang!

Editor’s note: This is a good maintenance tip of the kind that I hope members will post on this website so they can be archived and searched for by other members. Making a post is no more difficult than writing an email. Give your post a title and write something. On the right-hand margin, select one or more appropriate categories for your post. In this case I selected “Maintenance” and “Oil.” A list of categories appears on the right margin of our home page. By selecting one of those categories, you can see all posts made in that category. When a new post is made, an email is sent to all members who have chosen to receive such emails.