07 Honda Elite 80 Engine Oil Screen Question

[joew8638]

Hopefully the last question, thanks in advance for the help.

I have an 07 Honda 80 with 7,000 miles on it and doing the maintenance for it.

The service manual states to clean the oil screen. The manual then says step 1, remove the engine....

When you guys do this maintenance, is the screen pretty dirty or most of the time ok? Im debating whether its worth the hassle involved. Thoughts?

Thanks,
Joe

[Wheelman-111]

Greetings:

Step 1: Remove the engine??!
Actually it's not quite as hard or time-consuming as it sounds - at least for our 2-strokes. Most of us can drop the engine in well under an hour, including the plastics. Not sure it's quite as fast for the 4-stroke 80, but it shouldn't be an all-day deal. If you don't know the oil change history, what kind of life the scooter has led, I'd recommend pulling it unless there's some shortcut that'll get you to the screen.

That said, the one on my Reflex - which is really easy to get to - didn't have a Speck o'sludge at 3K miles. Weird that there's no simple spin-on disposable filter. The screen will catch BBs, but nothing much smaller than that.

[Tyler VR]

It's probably more trouble than it's worth, unless you're going to do a timing chain job. You have to take half the engine apart to clean the oil screen. It might be doable with the engine installed, but removing a scooter engine is easy.

Here's some pics from my ch80 rebuild, had like 5k pulled from a 1985. Only a pine needle and a couple bits of crap on the screen.