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.
Do you measure the torque settings of the oil filter when you put it on? I’ve done the same thing on my bike but soon realized the only time the gasket came off was when the filter was put on way past the torque specs.