Oil

I tried the Liquid Wrench chain lube. It dried up/slung off preety quick. It's not as good as Bel-Ray. If you go on a long ride, take the whole can with you. You'll need it.:biggrin:

 

Eddie:

You are right, I have to put it on every morning. Nothing to make it "stick" to the chain. No shop's open on Sunday to go get a can, so I'm typing here. Thanks.

- Paul

 

It'll hold you over till you can get the good stuff.

 

I'll start a new thread....

 

Ditto
I use the syn stuff in my bike, since it is subject to such abuse in the engine and the clutch. I tend to ride high on the tach. Changed at about every 5,000 miles. Couple hundred thousand miles on different bikes, never had any problems with the engines leaking. Never any clutch issues. I use the motorcycle specific Mobil 1 after reading an in depth analysis a few years ago in Motorcycle Consumer News. Prior to that I used the Honda or BMW specific synthetic oils.
And then I use the regular dino stuff in the cars, also changed at about 5,000 miles, took one engine to 238,000 miles before I sold it, ran like a top, no engine issues.

 

So I changed my oil yesterday using Honda Spectro 10W-40, all went well, until I was putting the oil in....

Each oil bottle has this terrible aluminum seal on the top, that you have to break, because for some rediculous reason, just a cap is not good enough. So I break the aluminum tops and bend them back. Pour oil into the engine there through the port using a yellow funnel.

1 quart in, I watched a 1 cm sqaure piece of Aluminum foil from the inside of the oil can wander down the funnel into my engine. Aaaand time stood still. There is Nooooooo way to get it out from the top, theres too much stuff in there, I was sure I was screwed.

So in hopes that the piece could be flushed into the oil pan and back out...
I opened the drain plug again, and flushed oil through, nothing.
Did the same thing again, using 2 more liters of oil, nothing.
Yet again, this time shaking the bike around while I did it, nothing.

Finally, I was ready to give up and pray that the oil filter got it before it got to anything, but I decided to fill her all the way up, and drain once more.
2 seconds into the last drain, the piece of foil came out the drain plug.

I dont think I have been that happy in years. Oil change took 3 HOURS.

Now I had made a huge mess, and have to buy another few quarts of oil to fill the bike up, but please please people... BE CAREFUL ABOUT POURING OIL IN, WATCH OUT FOR DEBRIS!!!!!

 

I like these oil threads too. My $0.02, I had used the Honda syn blend and regulars for a while and it was OK, but on my last change I tried the Repsol oil. I really like how the bike peforms and shifts - better than the Honda oils IMO.

 

Derstuka:

Seriously now.... Would you use petro or synthetic for this?

 

I'm wonder what hair your talking about after noticing your signature line again...

It may be that additional friction a semi-synthetic provides would be advantageous... make certain it is not going to loose the correct feel between the pressure plates as the clutch cable is engaged.

 

So what im reading out of all this is to run Motorcycle specific 10-40 oil...I have looked at the Amsoil once or twice and if i recall right one of their mc oils is even named Interceptor...hmmmmmm wasnt there as specific rating these oils needed to meet..something like SG or something along those lines?

 

Would synthetic be ok in an older chain drive VF that has over 30000 kms on it?

 

In My Humble Opinion: heck yeah....

 

Oil Comparison Study

This thread made me do some research on automotive vs. motorcycle oil and I thought it would be interesting to pass on...

http://www.xs11.com/stories/mcnoil94.htm

Same general conclusion as the Oil FAQ on this website.

 

LOL you asked, look what ya got. ok Amsoil FTW