Who tightens their oil filter by hand?

As said before, clean the mating surface, light film of oil on the seal then spin on by hand until it touches...after that tighten 180 degrees...

 

I just oil the the seal and do by hand.......trouble is I have to muller it with strap and cam tool to get it off as a stonemasons hands are a rather blunt instrument. As a result of this I've moved to K&N filters so that I can use the torque wrench.
Like wise I've bought a set of the three torque wrenches small medium and large as I'm sick of overtightening things by hand.

 

I fucking don't having used the tool to do it up I can't undo it...and no I won't bang a screw driver through it

 

Torque wrench on my old gixxer. Not done one on the blade yet.

 

Only ever tightened filters by Hand ,not had one filter come loose, I've had a sump plug come out as an apprentice hgv tech but that's another story, One I could never forget! But, I would torque it if it had a nut on the end cause there's nothing like piece of mind and knowing its correct as I learnt the hard way

 

From "The Book":

 

...nut on the end

 

Well even I would torque one with a nut, might have to go K&N next time then

 

I always hand tighten.. Never had any troubles but I do have hands like shovels lol

 

Yep didn't know that +1

 

Well there you go.. That's why I can't undo it.. I did it up. Properly...

 

You need a wrench for this job because of the fairing ..you don't have to remove the fairing with the wrench. And with it on you defo wont get the filter tight enough.so don't try IMHO

 

By hand and then slightly more with a tool, don't think it really requires much.