Safety Wire the oil filter....

since you cant drill a hole in the filter what is the common method to wire up the filter?? Thanks!

 

Wrap a hose clamp around the filter and wire to that.

 

Or you can buy a K&N oil filter with the safety nut formed onto the filter.

But the hose clamp trick is pretty cheap!

 

oh ok, very good thanks guys.

 

K&N oil filters have a drilled nut on the end for safety wiring. Handy and the filter can be torqued.

 

CCS is going to require the hose clamp even if you run the K&N with the drilled nut.

 

why would you tourque an oil filter?

 

I find that it's easier to torgue the oil filter (9 ft. lbs.) than following the directions on the filter of tightening until filter makes contact than further tightening by the numbers printed on filter until the correct number lines up with a reference point. Also, if you tighten the filter too tight it will leak.

 

CCS doesn’t require brake calipers, axels or pinch bolts to be safety wired. Why in the hell would they require an additional level of safety at the oil filter?

By the way, no they don't. I've been racing with K&N filters with CCS and WERA since 2005.

 

where did you hear/read this? and this is the WERA board.

 

i think torquing the filter would be the ultimate in overkill. overtightening to the point that it leaks would mean that you crushed the filter. just hand tighten it and wire it.

 

Bobby:
The filter on a Ducati screws into a deep recess and is very hard to tighten by hand. That's why the nut formed into the the end of a K&N filter is nice.

 

what he said. It's not like your typical Japanese bikes. That nut on the end of the K&N is a god send!

 

gotcha.:up:

 

Some people race both CCS and WERA and we bounce from board to board.

I heard the "no can safety wire the K&N drilled nut" from the CCS tech guy in the riders meeting one week ago at MAM. He went on to say that the hose clamp will become mandatory for CCS.