[fre4spirit]

My oil "stash" is all used up, and I went out to get more.

Woof.

Has anyone looked at the price of oil and filters and such lately ?

.... and the guy at the counter basically told me I'd be stupid not to use Harley's heavy gear oil .vs Formula+

I ordered a 3 hole kit with filter from Amazon.
It was very inexpensive compared to the parts shops.

 

[Hoges]

A chrome HD 5 micron is $32 in OZ. I bought a heap of the same in Black near 1 year or so $24 . But this bloke wanted chrome. I checked Hiflo filters they are imported?

 

[kballowe]

I checked Hiflo filters they are imported?

Made in Thailand, I think.

Interesting that HiFlo makes some of the K&N filters.

 

[97shovel]

I have been using Mobil 1 20W-50 since 2001 and Wix filters for the last seven years. Over 340K miles with no problems. We travel allot and I can get the oil and filter at any O'Reilly's, $11.50 per qt and $12 for the filter. The oil is a little cheaper at Wal Mart but they will not let you change oil in their parking lot.
I always ask before I pay if I can change the oil in their parking lot and only once did the counter guy hesitate. $5 gets you a drain bucket, rags and hand cleaner, I keep the unused rags and hand cleaner and return the bucket with the used oil.
I have not had to change oil on the road since last September so the prices may have changed.

 

[Pro69ss]

BE VERY VERY CAREFUL AND WATCH THOSE K&N FILTERS LIKE A HAWK ! THEY ARE WELL KNOWN TO LEAK OIL !!!

I used to run these too , until I was warned . I used to Trackday’s on sport bikes and most tracks and organizations will Not allow this filter on their tracks as they have seen multiple instances with these filters failing and oiling the track and causing accidents !

HiFlo is supposed to be better but if it has that cheesy nut on top it’s garbage !

 

[kballowe]

We've been using those HiFlo filters for more than 20 years. No issues (yet).