I usually hit them with a little brake cleaner, if I happen to get any on the headers. The shop towel method seems to work okay though.
Viggy On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:55 AM, 750S <[email protected]> wrote: > To address your problem of burning your hands. First I only run bike > for about 1 minute. This is sufficient to warm the oil enough to let > it drain properly. Then remove the three drain plugs 1 in bottom of > engine and 2 in frame on each side, wait for 10 -15 minutes for all of > the old oil to drain, Contain old oil for disposal, reinstall the 3 > drain plugs. Should be about 20-25 minutes now since the bike was > running. Now, lay some shop rags on exhaust headers, they should be > only warm now to the touch, and remove the old filter. Install new > filter, fill with correct amount of new oil and clean up any mess on > and around exhaust headers. This works for me and I hope it does for > as well. > > On Oct 18, 1:04 am, Kyle Munz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's a question for all the 700S owners. How do you change the oil > filter > > neatly without spilling oil all over the exhaust headers? I've been > puzzling > > over it for a while now and haven't figured it out yet. I love how Honda > > specifies that you should warm the bike up first, then put the oil filter > in > > the middle of the exhaust headers. It's like a game of Operation getting > > your hand in there without burning it. > > > > -Kyle > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nighthawk_lovers%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
