RE: [ST] Triumph Oil Filter Alert.

["Rich Pardo" <richpardo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anyone try the K&N oil filter?

It has a nut on the botton to install and remove.




>From: Al Garvin <agarvin@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: [ST] Triumph Oil Filter Alert.
>Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 08:42:20 -0700
>
>Yesterday I went to my local Triumph dealer to get a jug of Mobile 1 and a 
>new filter. The counter guy says "Guess What"  the filter diameter has 
>changed. If you want to buy a new wrench they are $29.00.   I guess Triumph 
>has a new oil filter supplier. It is Toyo Roki Mfg.co.ltd of Japan. The new 
>filter is 64 mm across the flats where the wrench goes. The old filter was 
>68 mm across the flats. The old filter used a style "G" wrench and it just 
>slips around when you apply it to the new filter. So off I went to my local 
>auto parts store this morning to pick up a new wrench and they did not have 
>one that fit like the style "G" wrench but  I bought a Lisle Import car 
>filter wrench Model 63600 which is expandable from 63.5 mm to 79.4mm and it 
>cost me $15.00 out the door. As I was driving home an idea occured to me to 
>use my existing style "G" wrench (which I had paid $4.00 for and Triumph 
>wanted $19.00 when I bought it a couple of years ago). I took the official 
>Triumph box that the filter came in and cut it open so that when I layed it 
>flat I could cut a couple of  strips out of it that were 1" wide by 8" 
>long. I took these two strips, layed them on top of one another and layed 
>them inside of the style "G" filter wrench and then stuck the new filter 
>into it and low and behold it was enough to make it a tight fit. So I think 
>I'll take my $15.00 new wrench back.
>Al Garvin
>San Martin, Cal.
>
>
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