What's the diff?

[Pauley]

I have a few of K&N filters I bought from Amazon a while back and they all look like this. I bought 6. I am using the third. Hope they're not counterfeit...


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[kmoney_imp]

I have a few of K&N filters I bought from Amazon a while back and they all look like this. I bought 6. I am using the third. Hope they're not counterfeit...


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I've cut the ones that look like that apart after use and they have the synthetic filter media and silicone ADBV with coil spring that all K&N oil filters come with. Their quality looks too high for them to be fake.

[Pauley]

Good to know kmoney. Thanks for that.


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[gossman_imp]

Why not just buy the OEM filter from the dealership?

[Pauley]

I kind of like the little nut on top of the K&N

[CA200_imp]

This might help. When I was in the bis. the K&N filters were made by Hi-Flow (same people who make KTm filters
and more under contract). They used materials specified by K&N. After I left I heard that K&N was now using
another Mfg. so what you are looking at are two K&N filters made at different times by different Mfg..

[furious_blue_imp]

I kind of like the little nut on top of the K&N

have a welded on nut is handy.

Since these use once style filters only have to come off once, I'm OK just using a universal 'grip and destroy if necessary' plier type filter wrench. For the tougher jobs, usually the ones where the factory installed the filter, getting it off usually involves deforming it from the tight grip.

After that I only tighten the new one the required amount and those are easier to spin off without having to grip so hard.

[Lord Popgun]

The Honda oil filter removal tool has a nut on it. Jus sayin

[redbirds_imp]

If a filter is installed without oiling the O-ring or is over tightened as often is the case with the factory installed filter, I see little use in the K&N "nut".

[kmoney_imp]

The nut can be awesome for people with headers or on some full fairing sport bikes, where they literally engineered just enough room to get a filter on/off for the sake of packaging efficiency. For our bikes though, it's really of no use.