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  • #1

    must be a dry county for oil filters

    Went oil filter shopping today and came up empty handed. autozone no longer carries them and can't order them at the moment. napa can get em still but it will be tomorrow, oreilly's can get the xwix but it takes a day too and they are 2 bucks more than Napa. so i ordered a stock yard of them for my bro and I.

    next time i will do the online source. but i hate waiting around more than a day for parts......hmmmm.
    1979 XS1100 SF "Black Goblin"
    -Pod Filters
    -4-1 pipe
    -larger jets for carbs
    1982 XJ1100 "Black Sheep"
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  • #2
    Hmmmm... I ordered 6 of the Frams from Autozone a while back... down to 2. I better check on that. Seems I only need them when I swap motors.... they haven't been making it to 3k miles! lol.

    Tod
    Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

    You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

    Current bikes:
    '06 Suzuki DR650
    *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
    '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
    '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
    '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
    '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
    '81 XS1100 Special
    '81 YZ250
    '80 XS850 Special
    '80 XR100
    *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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    • #3
      Oil filters

      Autozone pulled all the motorcycle filters last year. Why i don't know why because we use to sell a lot of them. I got lucky and stocked up on about 4 of them before they pulled them. They still sell motorcycle oil though, but my bike doesn't like it. Makes clutch slip so i went back to Rottela 15/40.
      Thanks Tom
      82 XJ DAILY RIDE
      78 XS1100E FIXING UP
      79 XS1100F PARTS BIKE
      79 XS1100SF NAKED BIKE
      80 XS1100SG FULL DRESS BIKE
      82 XJ IN THE ROUGH

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      • #4
        Shucks/Checker/Cragin still sells them but doesn't usually keep them in stock.
        They can get them next day... I usually order four or five at a time.
        "Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not a mechanic!' ('Bones' McCoy)

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        • #5
          We call our local Napa store the "tuesday brothers store" as outside of fuzzy dice and chrome valve covers for chevy engines they appear to have nothing else in stock but "we can have it for you tuesday".
          We do have Car Quest stores in the area and they usually have filters on hand for around $6 a copy. I occasionally pick one up there as that is where I get the Scheaffers synthetic blend oil that the Dragon likes so well.
          However I usually get the filters at a "Fleet Farm" store about fifty miles from me because they handle the same Fram-CH6002 filter for $3 and change. I pick them up six at a time in the spring and that usually gets me through the season.
          The one thing that the local Napa does stock is the Lucas "slick mist" paint gloss intensifier. This stuff will ABSOLUTELY shine up your ride in just a couple of seconds. Also works on plastic, windshields, fiberglass, and chrome. Makes the windshield on my Vetter so slippery that most of the bugs have a hard time sticking to it!
          The Old Tamer
          _________________________
          1979 XS1100SF (The Fire Dragon)
          1982 650 Maxim (The Little Dragon)
          another '82 650 Maxim (Parts Dragon)
          1981 XS1100SH (The Black Dragon)

          If there are more than three bolts holding it on there, it is most likely a very important part!

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          • #6
            Re: must be a dry county for oil filters

            i ordered a stock yard of them for my bro and I.

            Thanks Bro!
            Casey
            1980 xs1100g "Frankenstein" (Now with a mind of his own!)

            "What do you mean I can't park this thing here?"
            "Shiny side up? I don't have a shiny side."

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            • #7
              oil filters

              You can order them on line from ShadeTree Power sports for $6.69 ea. They used to give a discount if you ordered 5 or more I don't know if they still do that though.
              Fastmover
              "Just plant us in the damn garden with the stupid
              lion". SHL
              78 XS1100e

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              • #8
                Next time you place an order for filters, order the T.C.'s Spin-On Oil Filter Adapter-S.O.F.A. and your worries on finding those motorcycle filters will be over.
                You can use FRAM's filter model # 6017A. Some of the other auto filters that will fit are: the PH7317, the PH6607, PH3595, PH3590.
                Just run down to the Modifications, oil & lubrication and read about it. Works great.
                Do'Lee
                XS1100SF "Green Hornet"
                (1) XS1100LG "Midnight Dream" Restoration has begun.
                (2) XS1100LG "Midnight Madness" Waiting to be next
                (5) multi partsters for bobber "Ruby Red II" On the list.
                SR500H "Silver Streak"

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                • #9
                  Thanks for the plug, but?

                  Hey DoLee,

                  Glad to hear that your SOFA is working well, but now've you done it! I don't go out of my way to advertise or push these things, cause I don't have any backstock as of now!

                  It takes me a while to make them, and I'm hoping to have some time to do many needed things on Godzilla to get him ready for XSEast 2008, and I won't have much time for making any more SOFA's or SOFCA's until after Memorial Day!

                  But I WILL put them back into production. I have two Xsives patiently waiting for a SOFCA from my next batch. I tend to wait until I have several pending orders so that I am more motivated to get out in the garage and make a batch knowing that they will then be going out soon to folks in need/want!
                  T.C.
                  T. C. Gresham
                  81SH "Godzilla" . . .1179cc super-rat.
                  79SF "The Teacher" . . .basket case!
                  History shows again and again,
                  How nature points out the folly of men!

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                  • #10
                    Genius:

                    I get mine at Advance Autoparts. Their store locator shows one in Springdale. Up here they carry Fram with both o-rings for about $5.

                    Fayetteville? I have relatives in Rogers. You're definately down there where the men are men and the sheep are nervous

                    DB
                    I think I have a loose screw behind the handlebars.

                    '79 XS11 Standard, Jardine 4/1, Dyna DC1-1 Coils, 145 mains, 45 pilots, plastic floats - 25.7mm, XV920 fuel valves, inline fuel filters, speed bleeders, Mikes XS pods, spade-type fuse block, fork brace, progressive fork springs/shocks, manual petcocks, 750 FD, Venture cam chain tensioner, SS brake lines

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                    • #11
                      SOFA

                      I love mine. I decided to do something about my personal fitness level so now I'm wearing sports socks, spraying sports deodorant all over me and stretching out on my SOFA, I feel great!

                      I also love my new spin on oil filter adapter that TC made for me. I couldn't source any FRAM PH3950 filters here in OZ but I found some on eBay.

                      I now have twenty nine (29) of them. I didn't realise others would fit. Oh well, I have a lifetime supply now so I'm cool. If any of my Aussie brothers need a filter let me know.

                      Dan
                      Fat Filter Pharaoh
                      Automotive Imbecile.
                      Proud owner of 'The Swiftcicle'. (Swifty for short)
                      '78E Full Vetter Dresser.
                      1196 Big Bore Kit.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by dbeardslee
                        Genius:

                        I get mine at Advance Autoparts. Their store locator shows one in Springdale. Up here they carry Fram with both o-rings for about $5.

                        Fayetteville? I have relatives in Rogers. You're definately down there where the men are men and the sheep are nervous

                        DB
                        DB,

                        that has to be one of the funniest comments I have heard about arkansas beside the family tree being just one limb.

                        I am not originally from here, so it is a habbit of mine to make the reneck jokes about the goat roppers.
                        1979 XS1100 SF "Black Goblin"
                        -Pod Filters
                        -4-1 pipe
                        -larger jets for carbs
                        1982 XJ1100 "Black Sheep"

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                        • #13
                          Genius:

                          LOL
                          I think I have a loose screw behind the handlebars.

                          '79 XS11 Standard, Jardine 4/1, Dyna DC1-1 Coils, 145 mains, 45 pilots, plastic floats - 25.7mm, XV920 fuel valves, inline fuel filters, speed bleeders, Mikes XS pods, spade-type fuse block, fork brace, progressive fork springs/shocks, manual petcocks, 750 FD, Venture cam chain tensioner, SS brake lines

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                          • #14
                            Took me a while to find one but I gave up lookin in auto parts store and bought one on ebay for 10 bucks shipped. The same guy also sells them in groups of 3 for 27 with free shipping.
                            http://stores.ebay.com/The-Filter-Kings
                            thats the store if anyone else needs filters.
                            1979 XS1100 SF (production number 572)
                            1972 Kawasaki g4 TR-B with high and low transmision
                            1974 kawasaki G4
                            2003 Polaris 250 Trailblazer
                            1975 Yamaha Enduro 175

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                            • #15
                              Napa and orielly's are the best places. Napa is the cheepest tho
                              1979 XS1100 SF "Black Goblin"
                              -Pod Filters
                              -4-1 pipe
                              -larger jets for carbs
                              1982 XJ1100 "Black Sheep"

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