Trying to get the SBK ready for the track day this Sunday. Unfortunately I've got everything I need except a filter wrench [bang]
Anyone have one I can borrow. Willing to travel to come get it ;D There's a beer involved also...
I do not have a duc speciific one. The smallest autozone steel band style wrench will work if you can reach most of the way around the filter (I know I can on the 848 case). Cheap at lesss that $5, and it tightens as well.
Even cheaper...jab a screw driver in the side of the filter and turn. Take longer to type it than to do it...
Ive got a channel-lock like plier. It works on my
two Ducs.
Channel-Lok works great...and is what I use on my M900 - if I do not get the K&N. Works better than a screwdriver.
Quote from: ID_DUC_MON on April 13, 2010, 01:50:46 PM
Even cheaper...jab a screw driver in the side of the filter and turn. Take longer to type it than to do it...
+1... plus it's really fun to do..
If you are at Motopia, I can bring a Channel-Lok over for you to use/show how to use.
Quote from: greenohawk69 on April 14, 2010, 08:36:38 AM
If you are at Motopia, I can bring a Channel-Lok over for you to use/show how to use.
Thanks very much for the offer but I was able to get the oil filter off this morning. Yea. Also, I'm no longer at Motopia ;)
what's going on there... are they going under?
I use a Pittsburg strap wrench. It's like $5 for a package of two.
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Quote from: RichD on April 14, 2010, 10:50:09 AM
I use a Pittsburg strap wrench. It's like $5 for a package of two.
yeah, but exactly what are using it for?!? ;D
Quote from: Duc L'Smart on April 14, 2010, 10:57:16 AM
yeah, but exactly what are using it for?!? ;D
I weld the filter to my workbench and use the small strapwrench to turn the bike.
The LARGE strapwrench I use as my "girth meter" [popcorn]
next time you need one, i have a duc-specific oil filter wrench, i also have a pair oil filter pliers for stubborn ones. In the future, use a K&N Filter (KN-153), which has the nut built onto the bottom of it.
Just borrow Josh's rizoma wrench and then flea bay the thing
silly dax, rizoma doesn't make tools. (but it is billet)
I'll bet they make a special one for you every Christmas seeing as how you've spent 5 years salary with them.
i like how you think i've spent that much.
i'm quite the frugal shopper.
Billet suspension hoop isn't Rizoma (there's looked different), and was obtained used.
Rizoma Oil Cooler Guard was used, and a discontinued piece. Thanks, eBay!
Rizoma Rearsets and Belt Covers - new. Belt covers purchased before the change in EU-->USD conv., Rearsets were a deal since I weren't sure they'd bolt up, and I'd shopped with ol' PJ for many years.
Rizoma turn signals and clutch plate/cover - new. Stock turn signals are ooogly and plastic, these aren't. Many duc owners change their clutch cover and pressure plate, I happened to choose Rizoma over SpeedyMoto.
And now I'm fresh out of Rizoma pieces as far as I know.
Ebay is tops [thumbsup] Almost every mod - billet and CF - on my 620 was "pre-owned" [laugh] I found several really trick parts that had long-since discontinued by various manufacturers... Gotta love bargain shopping [beer]
That's how I've rolled. Find a vendor/manufacturer going tits-up (as the saying goes), and raid 'em. That is, only with parts you don't often or ever need replacements on. Clutch pressure plates / covers, random gears/pulleys, etc.
I wouldn't buy close-out discontinued bars. One bent one and no replacement and you are screwed!
the guilty mind speaks! an awful lot of words to explain something so simple. [drink]
snubbing your nose at The (retail) Man is a m.o. that never goes out of fashion [evil]
agreed. I got my CycleCat sprocket cover for 35 when others were paying 100+. VeeTwo parts when the AUD is weak compared to the USD.
Quote from: a m on April 14, 2010, 01:31:04 PM
silly dax, rizoma doesn't make tools. (but it is billet)
It's a shame they don't
They would be good lookin' [cheeky]