Oil change

[Mervin]

Dont forget members get a discount when buying from Opie oils and and Averys motorcycles ,

[ptolemyx]

Andy, please don't get my previous post wrong. It's just that on every forum the question of which oil to use comes up all the time and all of us "experts" have our own differing opinions and brand loyalties and that question gets no definitive answer. Same with which tyres.

Regarding your question of frequency of oil changes, I agree with most folk that it's a false economy not changing the filter with each oil change and I change the oil and filter in my bikes annually when I do a comprehensive service in winter. If I were to do more mileage I'd change more often, no more than 4000 miles between changes. When I was drag racing my B-King and giving it serious abuse the oil and filter got changed every third or fourth meeting, which might have been less than 100 miles, but that of course has no bearing on road use.

[CBRandy]

Andy, please don't get my previous post wrong. It's just that on every forum the question of which oil to use comes up all the time and all of us "experts" have our own differing opinions and brand loyalties and that question gets no definitive answer. Same with which tyres.

Regarding your question of frequency of oil changes, I agree with most folk that it's a false economy not changing the filter with each oil change and I change the oil and filter in my bikes annually when I do a comprehensive service in winter. If I were to do more mileage I'd change more often, no more than 4000 miles between changes. When I was drag racing my B-King and giving it serious abuse the oil and filter got changed every third or fourth meeting, which might have been less than 100 miles, but that of course has no bearing on road use.

[Millsyboy]

I change before winter sets in so fresh oil sat in bike. Probably less than 3K miles on fresh change with K&N filter every time. These filters have nut for tighten so easier than OEM that comes with my bike. I change to using Motul 300v from Castrol as Castrol I was getting sticky gear changes, Motul works well for my bike although £50 bucks a pop.

[TLS-Moose]

.....with K&N filter every time. These filters have nut for tighten so easier than OEM that comes with my bike........

Google "K&N oil filter failure"

[Mervin]

Hmm tightening nuts eh , i was always told smear clean oil on the o ring and tighten by hand only, check after running engine for while and getting someheat into oil if drippng tighten by hand again using cloth for grip , then you should be able to unfdo filter when changing by hand , if a filter had a nut on the end i would definetly only use it to remove filter never tighten it

[Jimbo04zx10r]

Hmm tightening nuts eh , i was always told smear clean oil on the o ring and tighten by hand only, check after running engine for while and getting someheat into oil if drippng tighten by hand again using cloth for grip , then you should be able to unfdo filter when changing by hand , if a filter had a nut on the end i would definetly only use it to remove filter never tighten it

You are right that a small smear of oil on the seal helps it mate with surface.
An oil filter on tour bike will have a torque setting, I personally use hi-flow filters as the K&N they have a nut on the back. I use the nut along with my torque wrench as per book and have never had an issue, and it does make it a lot easier to remove as it's not hand tight plus bait more just to be sure

[Millsyboy]

well I've used K&N since I have ridden bikes using correct Torque setting with no issues and easy to fit.

[ptolemyx]

The only problem with K&N filters is gorillas posing as mechanics. It is so much easier to put the correct (low) torque on with the nut there.