I think i've put my oil filter in back to front
I think i've put my oil filter in back to front
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Tuesday 19th June 2018
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2012 Honda CBR250 - changed the oil and filter a few weeks back but when I put it all back together there must have been a bit of grit between the filter housing and block so had a bit of an oil leak. I knew I would be changing the chain and sprockets shortly so decided to wait and do both.
Last night finally got round to doing both jobs.
Very carefully took the filter out, set it one side so I wouldn't get confused about what way it had to go back, cleaned all the faces and somewhere in the middle had a brain fart, checked the filter for the "outside" marking (couldn't see one) and after turning it 3 or 4 times forgot what way round it was.
It appeared to only fit in one way, so, went with that.
This morning was heading into work and taking it easy until I was sure nothing was going to fall apart, pulled out to overtake a taxi on the motorway at 60mph there was a sudden "whirrrr" noise and the engine cut out.
Hit the hard shoulder, restarted the bike and now it sounds a bit rattley.
It's going ok but not sure how long for.

Have I done the bearings in?

As a side note, when I took the original filter out a couple of weeks ago, i'm sure the "outside" marking on the filter was to the engine side which confused me.