snofrog
Well-Known Member
Klotz 10-40 is what i use .
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I use only organic, grain fed, farm fresh oil sourced from fair trade dinosaurs. One dollar from every litre goes towards food and shelter for orphaned pelicans in Brazil. Just kidding, I use Rotella T6 from Wal-Mart at $20 a jug
I CANNOT believe that anyone would run a 5w oil in anything except a sewing machine.
FACT: Viscosity degradation and fuel are the 2 biggest problems in the oil. A 30w oil has a pour point around zero degrees.
Do some oil research on the web and quit using a 5w oil. If you read anything that disagrees with this --- don't believe them. hehehehe
Multi-grade
The temperature range the oil is exposed to in most vehicles can be wide, ranging from cold temperatures in the winter before the vehicle is started up, to hot operating temperatures when the vehicle is fully warmed up in hot summer weather. A specific oil will have high viscosity when cold and a lower viscosity at the engine's operating temperature. The difference in viscosities for most single-grade oil is too large between the extremes of temperature. To bring the difference in viscosities closer together, special polymer additives called viscosity index improvers, or VIIs are added to the oil. These additives are used to make the oil a multi-grade motor oil, though it is possible to have a multi-grade oil without the use of VIIs. The idea is to cause the multi-grade oil to have the viscosity of the base grade when cold and the viscosity of the second grade when hot. This enables one type of oil to be used all year. In fact, when multi-grades were initially developed, they were frequently described as all-season oil. The viscosity of a multi-grade oil still varies logarithmically with temperature, but the slope representing the change is lessened.[
Joe,
It's OK, not to worry. Have some Faith.
See, it's OK. You just need to have a little Faith.
You're in Canada -- you're ambient temperature is much different than TX.The uninformed here would appreciate an explanation as to why you say what you say, Joe.
More things you don't know anything about. I am going to place you on ignore so I don't get any more private God e-mails.
I don't need you pushing your religion on me.
You're in Canada -- you're ambient temperature is much different than TX.
I have another bike with 56000 miles and all the valves are still within spec.
Joe,
Let's be straight. Being in Canada and the viscosity of heated oil don't have any relationship. Heated oil in Texas and heated oil in Canada have the same viscosity. Startup/cold viscosity may be different but the lubricants discussed adapt to the differing temperatures and are graded as such.
It would be appropriate to mention that valve lash is a mechanical result and nothing to do with lubrication unless valve stems and valve seats require far more critical lubrication than I ever understood.
Fuel dilution is an issue in the Speed3's direct-injected, turbocharged 2.3 liter, too. Not much you can do besides more frequent oil changes.