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Post by apricot on Mar 7, 2007 18:44:48 GMT
"Louise and I now both use car oil." Time to up your medication perhaps ? 
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Post by suzukikidontheloose53 on Mar 8, 2007 0:01:41 GMT
There's even a picture of said fellow..... Is that him? All I can make out is a red face and a blue shirt,could be anybody,and that's WITH my glasses on. Incidentally gurner,I've always wondered if that's u in your avatar?  |
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Post by alpaholic on Mar 8, 2007 9:32:30 GMT
Thanks for that Welshy, quite a lotto read though. Ok, it seems to me the article is saying you need to use bike oil because your clutch will slip and because the air/oil cooled bike engines run hotter. However there are also cars with wet clutches available and air cooled cars. There are very highly tuned cars and very low tuned bikes. It's a pretty obscure web site. I wonder if this guy is just quoting the same old myths. Blending oil according to the number of road wheels the vehicle has seems a bit hit and miss to me. Why don't car oils have 'not to be used with wet clutches on them'. |
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Post by cookie on Mar 8, 2007 12:14:31 GMT
always used 10/40 GTX since I noticed that M/C oil cost twice as much. Change it twice as often is better IMHO.
Never had a problem and my cam looks like that photo too.
Use straight 40 on my '64 Triumph, but if you put that
near the clutch (in the primary case) it slips like buggery.
That's the only time I've ever had a clutch issue caused by the oil.
But I will change if the evidence suggests - I always buy Tesco petrol, but last week went to BP!
cheers
Cookie
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Post by alpaholic on Mar 8, 2007 13:01:59 GMT
But I will change if the evidence suggests Finding the evidence is a bugger though. :-( |
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Post by alpaholic on Mar 8, 2007 13:06:59 GMT
Works fine , look at this camschaft after 100.000km No pitting, no coloration, no wear at all What does that prove? There was no pitting, coloroation or wear on my Divvy 600 after 60k miles. |
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