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We are using Fram filters up here which are adapted to the stock filter plate in front of the rearwheel by means of a " helicoil ". I have been using substitute filters of the same size for a while now on my 1973 850 without any trouble. Now, screw the filter onto the helicoil, fill the bike with oil and ride! When you change the filter, the helicoil will stay in the stub, so just change the filter as usual. While at the parts store pick up a filter for a 231cubic inch GM car.
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In order to use common automotive filters, buy a helicoil for a ½" reach 14mm spark plug, break the installation tang off the helicoil and screw it onto the threaded stub that the oil filter normally screws onto. Just tighten it as you would for your car. Although these kits were sold with a big hose clip and a thin triangular plate which you trapped with the clip around the filter to stop it loosening, I dumped all that stuff and the filter has never come loose. The inlet to the filter head connects to the scavenge line from the oil pump and the outlet connects to the return to the tank. The feed and return stubs point vertically upwards and the filter spins on from the rear. On my 1972 Commando, I mounted the filter head between the plates of the engine rear cradle, bolted to the right-side plate through two holes drilled one above the other. Were there holes drilled in the bracket? I assume the hookup involves hooking the return line from the engine to the 'in' fitting on the filter head, and the line to the tank to the 'out' line on the head.įitting an external oil filter to earlier Commandos How do you mount one of these things anyhow? It appears to mount on the left Isolastic bracket.
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I have the infamous parts manual that shows the filter on the wrong hose, but I don't have the other mounting hardware. I have a nifty Hosafros adapter, so I can use Fram. I have a 1972 Commando and would like to add an oil filter I have the head to mount the filter on. A review of correspondence from Roadholder and NOC-L There are a number of alternatives for the genuine oil filter fitted to later CommandosĪn oil filter can be added as an after-market part to pre-1972 CommandosĬan an external oil filter be fitted to earlier Commandos?