Reusable Oil Filters?

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[align=left]You will never be able to clean much less see the microscopic material in the filter, This isa bad:wi:place to look for a way to save money. Use the best oil and filters:tup: that you can afford. Remember that the oil is the life blood of you engine and you want it to be as clean as possible. This will pay off in the long run. :dr:If Skidmark reads this he should put a link to this question that was posted some time ago[/align]
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K, Thnaks for the advice... I was under the impression reusable filters would actually do a better job. While researching on the net I came across a lot of people who said they got better, more consistant oil flow using these filters meaning cooler oil and thus, greater horse power. But I also wondered is steel mesh could be as effective as paper...

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I've never used one, but many yanks swear by em on tt. This issue was raised some time ago in this forum, both pros and cons. A good scott's may be cleaned well...as often as you want! However, this is a pain in the a**--unless you have a military skill in quickly cleaning metal parts. Futher, there's no scientific evidence that it's better, just what scott's sez.

I really like their steering damper so I am inclined to believe them, but I would like to see a head to head test against OEM filters in MCN or even in DSBC. My position on it is that the reusable concept as advertised by scott's makes sense but there is no proof...as such I will stick to paper for now and await more long term reports from tt before I make a switch. Again, they are huge popular on the tt drz 400 forum, but we disagree with the yanks on many things...most of them consider the 400s a joke and waste of time, as well as the stock jetting and supension, but it seems to work pretty damn good for us and our conditions. The yanks seem to think the bike needs a complete overhaul to function effectively--that the S model has almost no credibility off road. Well, I'm just an average rider but it has sure taken an licking and it does whatever I need it to do, and the elder statesmen around here never cease to impress me on it...so I've learned to take what I read on the drz 400 section of with a grain of salt...


I'm always willing to try somethingnew butI have done more reasearch and found the evidence anecdotal and thus "paper thin".I'll stick to OEM pending objective tests...

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Ya, after Tom mentioned the topic had been raised, I did a search and found the old thread. Looked like a heated debate... and I actually bought your argument Bucks. The guy I was all ready to pick one up from said that opinions vary (of course) and that sometimes paper filters let larger debris through while metal mesh filters may let more micro size debris through ???:? I don't really get how that is possible... but hey!

As for them being a pain to clean
unless you have a military skill in quickly cleaning metal parts
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... I have had my share of cleaning C7's, C9's, C6's, M72's and Karl G's... cleaning a reusable filter would indeed be a cakewalk.

I'm willing to risk the life blood of my bike in the name of conclusive results regarding which filter is better. Though to do it properly you would really have to be set up in a lab like environment.

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were you in the miltia or regs? Did you ever boil gun parts to clean them? Not everyone knows that trick!!!
 
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I spent 4 years in the Can Scotts and one year here in the Westies until I eventually got out. I loved it at first, but soon I wanted to learn more than just how to kill people and dig holes :p I never actually boiled the pieces, but we did run them under scorching hot water or sometimes we would even shower with our weapons. Carb Cleaner and Disk Break Cleaner would work pretty well. I remember this one time on basic training this dude used toilet bowl cleaner (any shortcut we could think of!)... after he let his rifle soak in the bath tub it came out silver lol :)

Hey, I heard a lot of people say cleaning all the guns as well as we did was actually bad for them... that they worked better with a little grime in them. You think this is true? Were you a weapons tech or something?

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no i basically had the same gig as you in the westies. By boiling I mean putting em in a sink of boiled water / hot water. I think all guns work best clean but the loose tolerances of service weapons can take a lot of grime. I spent most of my time in the westies as a c9 gunner and then c6 gunner in weapons debt. But then the size of a and b company doubled and I was surrounded by 5'2 women who couldn't even do a pullup. The standards started to go for a s*** right after I joined and I became thoroughly dissilusioned with the whole thing. I pulled out of my roto, signed up for my masters degree and checked out. we might know some of the same people...


have we talked about this before? my memory sucks and I can say that I have been using beer, the ulimate weapon to obliterate it even further. :spl::hb::spl:

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tomcycle

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You guys want to take this discussion to the forum it belongs

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