What is the best way to cut open an oil filter?
 

Can opener? Not a hack saw, I'm not looking to add any metal to the inside, just find it. Any other tips?

I punched a hole in mine, then cut around the base with a set of tin snips.

Not the *cleanest* job in the world...

However, the tin snips haven't worked this good in a long time!!!LOL

Later,
Tom

I do ours the same way as Tom although I guess you can buy one of those "filter cutters".

Jewelers saw?

Too bad its after the 4th of July..... :D Crazy ideas come to mind

You get those at the same place where you get a "board stretcher?"

ok, remember I'm an idiot, but I have to ask... WHY?!

To look for metal bits from the engine self-destructing.

--DD

Milt,
The easiest way I have found is to poke a hole in the casing and then peal back a small tab. Next clamp the tab with a par of needle nose pliers and wind a continuious strip around the end of the pliers, just like the way old sardine can used to open with the key. It doesn't alway work in one try but it does get the casing off cleanly without contaminating the filter element.

I have an old, rather big pip cutter (the kind with a lond chain and handle).. A $2 buy at a yard sale.. Slices through them like butter.

~Eric

What if you drilled a hole in it and took a "nibbler" to it, I think that would do a clean job..

wouldn't the drill put extra shavings in?

Yes, indeed. To look for what kind of metal from the motor. Hopefully all it is is aluminum from the piston seizing. I will try to gather any metal with a magnet. I will also look at the color. I have an old school lab microscope. Lastly, to see what size the metal particles are. I figure if I can feel them with my finger tips, I'm in serious trouble.

Zeke, have you split the case yet? There is a thread over at 914club about making two barrel webers more road-race-able (is that a word??) Seems that fuel starvation is common, and certain mods can help. Check it out.

Baffling the float bowls, for one. There's an update kit available from CB Performance that is supposed to help, as well.

--DD

If you drill 3 or 4 small holes in the carburetor floats you won't have to worry about fuel starvation ;)

PS to any newbies out there, please don't do this, I'm kidding.

Does anyone know how to repair holes in carburetor floats??

LOL j/k