twfsa wrote:
>
> I believe that at first Honda Tech's were not paying attention to the
> gasket, at filter changes and there were fires, and I suppose that its an
> honest mistake, if you never have changed an oil filter.
>
> Tom
>

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I understood it different. The filters were crappy Chinese filters that
Honda had never used before, and nobody in the world would have
anticipated that the gasket would stick to the engine better than it
stuck to the filter.

That's the version I heard. FWIF

'Curly'