07-22-2013, 04:09 PM
You know when you tried all of your old oil filter wrenches from the strap type to the cap types and none will get a decent grip on the small Honda oil filter?
You're too lazy to drive to the auto parts store so you scour your tool options. The last resort plumbers pipe wrench wouldn't fit because of the headers. Didn't want to go total cave man and poke a big screwdriver through the filter can. What to do?
Then I remembered my woodworkers-oil-filter-wrench:
Crude? Yes. Simple? Yes. Fits around the headers and oil line? Yes. I have a bunch of different sized C-clamps inherited from my father who was a woodworker.
That factory filter is really TIGHT but the C-clamp could make enough of a dent to get a good enough grip to loosen the filter, then I could just unscrew by hand.
Here in Honolulu the city approved way to get rid of your engine oil is to drain it into that absorbent filled plastic bag inside of a cardboard box. Wire tie, tape up the box and put in the city provide trash bin where they take it to the trash-to-power incinerator.
Another idea for keeping your garage floor clean from the inevitable drips during an oil change or chain lube is to tape a puppy pee pad onto some cardboard and position that under your bike. Puppy pee pad should be good for several oil changes unless you really mess up. Yeah, you parents of young ones could use a disposable diaper instead. Or you oldsters could use Depends.
Aloha,
Huladog
You're too lazy to drive to the auto parts store so you scour your tool options. The last resort plumbers pipe wrench wouldn't fit because of the headers. Didn't want to go total cave man and poke a big screwdriver through the filter can. What to do?
Then I remembered my woodworkers-oil-filter-wrench:
Crude? Yes. Simple? Yes. Fits around the headers and oil line? Yes. I have a bunch of different sized C-clamps inherited from my father who was a woodworker.
That factory filter is really TIGHT but the C-clamp could make enough of a dent to get a good enough grip to loosen the filter, then I could just unscrew by hand.
Here in Honolulu the city approved way to get rid of your engine oil is to drain it into that absorbent filled plastic bag inside of a cardboard box. Wire tie, tape up the box and put in the city provide trash bin where they take it to the trash-to-power incinerator.
Another idea for keeping your garage floor clean from the inevitable drips during an oil change or chain lube is to tape a puppy pee pad onto some cardboard and position that under your bike. Puppy pee pad should be good for several oil changes unless you really mess up. Yeah, you parents of young ones could use a disposable diaper instead. Or you oldsters could use Depends.
Aloha,
Huladog