The spring is meant to be between the filter cover and the filter. Owners often get it wrong holding the filter out from the engine and compromising its function. There's supposed to be a washer between the filter and the spring preventing the spring from burying itself into the filter washer. That often gets thrown away with the old filter as it sticks to the rubber washer on the filter, Graham
Sent from my iPad > On Jul 22, 2015, at 16:16, Neil Patrick <patneilr...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi, I'm doing an oil and filter change on my 1983 650 Nighthawk. On re > assembling and referring to a schematic layout, it looks like the spring > should sit between the cover and filter. However, when I took it apart it was > fitted between the filter and engine. Any advice on the correct position > would be appreciated. Cheers Neil > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
