Avoid K&N oil filters? they apear to have a habit of exploding/leaking!

[fazerbcn]

[quote author=fazerbcn link=topic=27173.msg328002#msg328002 date=1639249603]I reckon that it may be fixed by opening it and cleaning the surplus oil that may be at the bottom of the filter,

Cleaning a semi enclosed oil filter that is not designed for it is a non sequitur, that and cleaning will have zero effect on a physical defects.

The thread is about oil filters failing fatally, not leaking. I have no idea what context your coming from with regard to your oscillating revs, did you mean to post that here..?
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I love my K&N, and have loved it for 20 years, the oscillating revs on idle were seen with the bike new when the K&N was fit, and disappeared after the set of iridium plugs, not relevant for the direct answer, but just wanted to provide a context on what happens when you change something on your bike (the engine brake changed a lot too, and that was another point I wanted to give... [size=78%])[/size]
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I can't see how a non-pressure filter could explode... Even with a physical defect...


About the cleaning, was about the oil surplus (as I was doing it first time, and I was tooooo generous with the oil I put on the filter and also anxious on the time I left it pooring before putting it back on the bike, so I would expect that the floor of the filter would be a little swimming pool of oil, that could go only go down with time...