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Please tell me there is another way

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Hey guys, first time poster here, long time lurker/user of the site.

I have a 79 GS 1000 that I bought off the original owner, however at some point he replaced teh stock pipes witha Kerker 4 into 1 which while it sounds nice, blocks access to the oil filter cap. Is there a relocation kit available or do you similar type users remove your headers every time you need to change the filter?

As the filter will neither fit between the header pipes, nor the header and engine, I am perplexed... perhaps I'm dumb and looking at it from the wrong angle?

Thanks in advance.

Tyler
 
Nope. Believe it or not, some dumb-as-pig-crap designers actually thought it was a good idea to set their headers so the oil filter was obstructed and users had to remove the downpipes to change the filter.
Amazing, isn't it? You may ask how anyone can be so utterly stupid, but it was common in the 70s with aftermarket pipes.
 
I imagine they are long past due to be seized in place and a risk of snapping off bolts when you try to remove them?
A lot of headers had that problem but I think they were marketed to gear heads who had no qualms about dropping the exhaust to do the filter change.
Heck I used to drop the exhaust on a bike I had to polish the chrome. Man it always looked pretty and it made changing filters a breeze.
 
Give the bolts a good soaking of something like PBBlaster before you try removing them and use anti-seize when you repalce them.
Welcome to the site.
 
Hopefully the original owner had the fore-site to replace the stock exhaust bolts with studs and nuts when he installed the header. I think most did at the time so as not to wear out the threads in the head with constant removals for oil changes. If he didn't, do so while you have it apart. I've found that it also makes it somewhat easier to reinstall the header.
 
If you get off ok, put studs and nuts back in. Then the next time age and corrosion won't matter, you can just heat the nuts real good with a propane torch and spin them right off.
 
Thanks for the info guys...I guess I was hoping there was some magical skinny filter that would go in to do the job (albiet not as nicelly).

I had plans to remove the header to wrap them, but yeah I guess I was hoping to not have to do it as often. Thankfully the bike only sat for a couple years when the guy got too old to ride it.

Anybody try an in line oil filter with an oil cooler?
 
Not to worry, actually once you get the hang of it the pipe should come off in one piece in about 5 minutes. Head pipe bolts or nuts and rear muffler hanger and the pipe should drop off in one piece.
 
steve murdoch said:
Not familiar with an "in-line oil filter".
Is it something like this? http://www.bellengineering.net/product_info.php?cPath=5_65_241&products_id=717
The stock system works fine or are you hoping to use the in-line setup to avoid removing the exhaust?
Click to expand...

While I am not totally familiar with them myself, I was thinking something more along the lines of this http://www.knfilters.com/search/product.aspx?prod=81-1000
25 micron instead of 50. That said, Im not sure if there are other ones that do more yet. I was hoping for either that solution or something that uses say a long filter from a KTM as they are small and relativelly cheap, and I have them in abundance.

To be honest, I had hoped somebody may have found a filter that fits into the stock location that is thin enough, but the same length as the stocker, to fit between the header.

All of that asside, I probably will run something like the K&N inline when I go to an oil cooler... once I find one. I will however retain the stocker of course and learn to love removing my headers as is the case with most of you fine gentlemen.
 
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