Honda stock filter oil load - You're over-oiling your filter

Post by **noiseguy** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 12:43 pm

Folks:

Just for giggles I took a stock Honda Spree element and weighed out the amount of oil in it. I've always known that most folks over-oil filters, but was surprised at how little oil is actually in these things.

My method was to take a stock element, weight it, wash it with soap + water to remove the oil, dry, and re-weigh.

What I found is that the element holds just 2 grams of oil. To put that in perspective, that's about 3/4 teaspoons of motor oil. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'll typically work about 2 caps in, which is more like 2 tablespoons... or over 6X the amount of the stock load.

1man8scoots · Post by **1man8scoots** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 2:54 pm

Just sent a payment for a 87 se50 filter to you! What instructions should I follow?

Post by **noiseguy** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 5:59 pm

It'll go out tonight.

patthesoundguy · Post by **patthesoundguy** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 11:28 pm

noiseguy wrote:Folks:

Just for giggles I took a stock Honda Spree element and weighed out the amount of oil in it. I've always known that most folks over-oil filters, but was surprised at how little oil is actually in these things.

My method was to take a stock element, weight it, wash it with soap + water to remove the oil, dry, and re-weigh.

What I found is that the element holds just 2 grams of oil. To put that in perspective, that's about 3/4 teaspoons of motor oil. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'll typically work about 2 caps in, which is more like 2 tablespoons... or over 6X the amount of the stock load.

This is a huge breakthrough! Great stuff!

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Honda stock filter oil load - You're over-oiling your filter

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