Has anyone ever honestly cleaned their centrifugal oil filter?

[Dirtcrasher]

It's not" in the clutch", it is on the crank in front of the primary drive gear and that drives the mainshaft; And yes, the 3 little phillips screws call for heat and an impact screwdriver or they aren't coming out. I replace them with M4 S.S flat head screws. On some motors they are filled with aluminum residue and black goo.

I also agree that this is one of Honda's worst ideas, it ranks right up there with the 200X kicker gears being inside the center cases.

[Jon Boy]

It's not" in the clutch", it is on the crank in front of the primary drive gear and that drives the mainshaft.

my mistake. sorry i have a bad habit of getting stuff mixed up sometimes, it was 2 yrs ago and just took a quick look. i was thinking clutch i guess, since i was checking the clutch at the time. thanks for the correction dirtcrasher.

[Dirtcrasher]

^ No biggie, it's a good thing that should be maintained. It's pretty easy to confuse people here at 3WW

[Jason125m]

Atc007, i am also talking about the one on the crank. We love to change our oil... lets just say that. I spend more on oil than i do on gas.

[bhillis99]

change out my clutch last week. Pulled the screen out and surprisingly it only had 2 small dirty spots.

[coolpool]

Are we talking about the oil rotor cup? If so I cleaned the one on my 84 200es and it was dirty. It was out of curiosity more than anything. There is a discussion in the Big red Riding Group I started on this very question http://www.3wheelerworld.com/group.p...529&do=discuss. I think I would do it on any machine I just aquired, but after that, regular oil changes should suffice. Unless you swamp or do something silly to really contaminate your oil.

[Dirtcrasher]

The problem is that most Hondas don't get taken apart for 25 years; So all the "break-in" aluminum and any other contaminants are in that rotor.......

If you do a top end, the rotor will have bits of green gasket you scraped off and the aluminum from breaking it in.

Some of these cranks are LH threads so please read your book so I don't buy a bunch of motors with junk cranks.

[tri again]

Our local bike shop guy does a lot of
break in oil changes and he just shakes his head at the amount of
(mostly aluminum) that comes out with the first oil changes
on factory fresh machines.

[motordude]

I pulled mine last year when I got my 200x from the original owner. Never asked him if he cleaned it but it was spotless, so after 25+ years, I am assuming it was done previousy which is

[cycle nut]

ive did a couple and you would be amaized at all the black crap youll scrape out,would be a good choice