Remote Filter

[Redboots]

In another thread, BMurr asked:

Whats that oil filter set up like? Anyone here used one like that and what are tyhe pros and cons????

Pros = not pfaffing about with the oil filter housing cover... even worse with the cooler hoses and removing the sump guard so you don't get oil dribbling in it.

Cons - Filter location.

I was thinking about this set-up the other day and got this far:
(taking money out of the equation)....

Fitting a sump spacer to gain more oil content seems like a wasted opportunity, so, fit a sump spacer with the spin-on filter conversion like this. The filter looks fairly short. The bash plate would also need modding.

Now, being a GS, the filter looks a bit on the vulnerable side so that would require an adapter like the "Type H" side port take off plate shown here.

Now you need a couple of flexible oil hoses to take it to the new filter mount location... where?

Or just fit the spacer and construct a new bash-plate to protect the filter. You can see how far it protrudes from the first link.



John

 

[Tarka]

Or just stop fecking about trying to reinvent the wheel,and creating new problems into the bargain.

Fixed,with a reality check.

All that expense,hassle and headaches,when you`ve got a totally protected filter as standard.

Even if you`ve got a bit of a struggle changing a filter due to oil cooler lines,how many times a year does it happen?

 

[Redboots]

All that expense,hassle and headaches,when you`ve got a totally protected filter as standard.

I just like fiddling I have seen some really nice fiddling on some bikes.

If people didn't fiddle with things, we would ALL be riding Urals

John

 

[Tarka]

If people didn't fiddle with things, we would ALL be riding Urals

John

Quite the reverse......Urals require more fiddling than even you would be happy with.

By the way...the Ural oil filter is in a FAR superior place than on yer Beemer.

 

[Beemerboff]

Bumped into a guy who had a bike with a modified a oil cooler filter cover, and presumably modified internals, so that he got full pressure oil feed to a remote spin on filter, the type sold for Brit iron.

Let him put the filter a bit higher up out of harms way and in a bit of air so it did a bit cooling too.

He had a few other mods, like a top fork yoke machined from a bottom one, four piston calipers on the ATE type forks, etc, so he must have been clever boy with a few machine tools around the place.

Top yoke was clever too, as it was split and clamped down on the top adjuster like most modern forks do, and most after market billet yokes don't.

 

[Redboots]

By the way...the Ural oil filter is in a FAR superior place than on yer Beemer.

Don't keep me in suspenders then

John

 

[pack]

i have a remote oil filter on my bike, done by the p.o. for the exact reasons you stated. first chance i get, i'm removing it. don't like the location or the miles of hose snaking about the bike. stock set up for me thanks

 

[Redboots]

'ear Tarka

By the way...the Ural oil filter is in a FAR superior place than on yer Beemer.

I'm about to find out.
I'm off to the European Ural meet in Austria next weekend as ballast
50 odd outfits doing a 150km rally with lots of off-road - they recommend chair drive

Followed by the obligatory brewery tour

I do not need my pilot to be doing any of this sort of thing though :

You going?


John

 

[Tarka]

I'm about to find out.
I'm off to the European Ural meet in Austria next weekend as ballast
50 odd outfits doing a 150km rally with lots of off-road - they recommend chair drive

Followed by the obligatory brewery tour

I do not need my pilot to be doing any of this sort of thing though :

You going?

John

Excellent.
Sadly I`m not going to it but I know all about it....it looks like a briliant meeting.

Have a great time....and don`t replicate the pic off your link.

Have a shufty for oil filter location ( ) and say hello from me to Birgit from Ural Austria,if you think on.