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I still have a couple older K&N oil filters in my lot, and still get a little freaked out when I see this. I have not used one since I read about the first oil leaking here, but had one on my Z900RS at that time. I have used these for years and never had one fail. Maybe I just lucked out and had ones built in a different plant or country.
I use only Honda ones now on my CB's. Still use the K&N oil filters in the Suzukis since they are internal and cannot leak.
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(04-15-2021, 04:45 PM)Tev62_imp Wrote: I am always amazed at the force people use to put an oil filter on on YouTube videos. An oil filter really doesn't require a nut on the front but if excessive force wasn't used to tighten it up in the first place I doubt the failure would of happened at all. Still, it is obviously a flawed design. Thank god you had the nouse to realise something was up.
I'm in full agreement. The filter only needs be put on hand-tight, with the o-ring supplying the tension. Oil the o-ring, tighten it by hand (no tools at all), and you need a strap wrench to remove. Even on cars, in 50 years in the car/motorcycle field, I never heard of one backing off by itself.
The nut is useful only at removal, and it wouldn't matter if it did tear then. Tighten it with a wrench, and the spot-weld can tear the cannister.
