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Originally Posted by demonicus
i think i read in the manual that you have to tighten the oil filter a full 2.5 turns with the tool after its hand tight,which seems an awful lot. is this correct, always used to be as tight as you could get it by hand on my other bikes and cars! what happens if you dont tighten this much?
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I've always done mine hand tight, never had a problem. I know spannerman does them as tight as the book says. I guess the danger is the oil pressure, coupled with engine vibrations, could cause the oil filter to undo itself if its not on there tighter than a tight thing. Always smear a little bit of oil around the rubber O-ring on the filter
