Re: [ST] Oil

["VB" <vcburton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>The advantages of synthetics are, Your gearbox will shift better.

I'd hate to see what my gearbox shifted like if I wasn't running synthetic
8>(.  Val


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From: "bare" <barenekd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 6:01 PM
Subject: [ST] Oil


> This is a long running thread on every motorcycle digest going. Here is
the
> straight skinny. And you can bet there will be naysayers.
> You can mix and match synthetic and dino oil. You can run them together.
You
> can run them alternatively. There is no problem mixing them. The
advantages
> of synthetics are, it's slicker than petro. This is why it's not
recommended
> for break-in. You may see a slight horsepower gain using synthetics. Your
> gearbox will shift better. You can run synthetic oil longer than dino
> because it doesn't wear out. The long-link molecules that give oil its
> viscosity will break down in dino, they don't in synthetics. When
synthetics
> first hit the market in the '60s, the idea was to never change it, just
> change the filter ever 6000 miles! They didn't consider other contaminates
> such as gasoline and water in there equations, I guess. At any rate, you
can
> run synthetics a lot longer between oil changes than dino oil.
> The 3000 mile and less oil change recommendations came in the old days
when
> bikes were all air cooled and ran dino oil. Air cooled engines run at
higher
> oil temps than water-cooled engines and breaks the dino down much more
> quickly. You can run dino oil with no problems in a water cooled engine
for
> 6000 miles. You can go longer with synthetic.
> So, the message is this, run whichever oil you choose to run. Don't worry
> about whether or not the engine has had synthetic before or not. It
doesn't
> matter. A lot of the things you hear pertaining to synthetic oils are old
> wives' tales from the '60s. They just don't pertain to modern oils.
> The general consensus is to avoid SJ rated oil though because it has
> friction modifiers and may or may not make your clutch slip.
> Bare
>
>
>
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