SO Boxer Oil Filter Removal

Had to happen.... the existing 2 piece filter broke in half when
removing it.

How the hell do I get the remaining half out?

I've tried hooking it out with a screwdriver, but that didn't work....so
I'm a bit stuck now.

Right PITA this job is. I've had to loosen the lower fairing panel and
the connector for the oil cooler only *just* swings out of the way
enough.

 

Angle grinder. Seriously, though, try a corkscrew.

 

Crochet hook.

How the **** have you (Steve, not TOG) managed to cock it up? I've done
about 30-40 changes on my RT and RS and never had to take the lowers
off, nor have I broken a filter!

Do you have spacial awareness issues?

 

It just came apart as I took it out. Then the remaining part fell back
into the housing.

Solved with a straightened paperclip, bent into a hook on the end, taped
to a screwdriver.

Can't get the oil cooler adaptor thingie undone without getting the
fairing panel out of the way. (3x 5mm allen bolts).

Couldn't even get in there with an extension bar on my ratchet and one
of those rose joint thingies.

Also discovered that the gasket was missing from the oil cooler feed -
no wonder the sump is nicely streaked with oil.

 

I have a number of hook tool things for retrieving O rings, gaskets and
the like and they're very useful.

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/cht161-4-piece-mini-pick-hook-set

 

IRTA "special awareness issues".

 

There was a barman's tool called a 'Hookything' which I have one or two
of, bought at Amateur Radio fairs, an made by one of the regular
stallholders at such.

The club which ordered them went bust and left them with loads of these
things like a stout piece of bent ss wire with a moulded-on handle which
resembled a bogchain pull.

The idea was to hook out corks which had escaped into winebottles, but
of course, they have much better uses. (All family and some fiends had
one for their drinkies cabinet, and IIRC, I've got two or three in the
workshop somewhere.)

 

I think you can buy simla from RS, we have some approaching that
description in the Big Lab's toolbox.

Tho' if you can wait for the wine-bottle to be emptied, there's a
U-Bend vidjo showing how to recover an errant cork using nowt but a
plastic carrier bag. You stuff the carrier bag into the bottle and, then
invert the bockle so that the cork falls down into the neck beside the
bag. Gently inflate the bag, then pulling on the bag grips the cork and
drags it through the neck.



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Or. you have a cork and half a career bag in yer bockle innit.

The things were made to order - gentlemen's club/whine-bar customers do
if they're given a bockle with a cork swimming freestyle.

Howsomedever, the club went sub-aqua before the order was delivered.

 

I've been interested to discover there is more than one type of oil cooler
takeoff, as you can see here:
http://tinyurl.com/oilcoolercover
choose <oil cooler> <other oil cooler parts>
for the models that have a side mounted cooler above the crash bar.