Black shadow
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I change oil and filter every two thousand miles,I like the look of clear oil coming out of the motor.
How often do you change your oil and filter
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zyepod
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Warranty is not a problem with any brand oil that meets requirements and all 20/50 vtwin oils do.
There are a lot of great SNY 20/50 oils for the engine Royal Purple is one of them. Spectro,M1, and many others make a great engine oil HD SNY3 is sadly near the buttom of the list.
Normaly a strong support of Hd parts any suppllies but the lube department just don't rate. And it made By our old buddy HUGO.
My total care packageRG every 5000 by the book HD filter
smitty I'm going to try the Spectro 20w50 on my nest oil change. I've tryed the Moble 1 and the Amsoil. The Amsoil seems to take a little longer to warm up (I guess) because my oil pressure stays up say around 32 longer than I've noticed with the other oils so far. When I say stays up I mean at idel. The other day I had driven a little over 5 miles and at the red light the engine had ideled down but the pressure was still up at 32 where usually it drops down.
Exactly when I change, due to the fact my commute to work is only 5 miles or so...not enough to get the engine warm enough to evaporate all the internal moisture, aging the oil, even though I use Motul Synthetic Motor oil & Spectro Gold Gear lube in the Trans/Chain/Clutch case, for my 2 hole Sporty. :s
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You only change oil once a year? How many miles do you ride?
zyepod
Active Member
Warranty is not a problem with any brand oil that meets requirements and all 20/50 vtwin oils do.
There are a lot of great SNY 20/50 oils for the engine Royal Purple is one of them. Spectro,M1, and many others make a great engine oil HD SNY3 is sadly near the buttom of the list.
Normaly a strong support of Hd parts any suppllies but the lube department just don't rate. And it made By our old buddy HUGO.
My total care packageRG every 5000 by the book HD filter
smitty,
Just curious... Is the Spectro Platinum Heavy Duty Motorcycle Full Synthetic Engine Lubricant 20w50 a class IV or V oil.
zyepod
Active Member
Well I'm gonna try the Spectro Heavy Duty 20w50 next. So far for me the Mobil 1 "V" Twinn looked beautiful going in looked like honey. Everything seemed to act the same as the HD oil. I mistakenly put some Dino 20w50 oil in (bought from Harley like a dummy not paying attention to what I bought) and on cold days my engine tapped like crazy at crank-up. I took that out after only about 350 miles after I realized what I had done. I'm now running Amsoil 20w50 and the one thing I can say I see that's different from it and all the others is when cold and at idle my oil pressure runs at 32+ much longer than all the others. At first I thought my oil pressure gauge had went bad. What I mean by this is usually after I've ridden far enough for the engine to idle down at a red light the oil pressure gauge drops down with the Amsoil I had ridden about 5.5 miles and was at a light engine idle is normal (no choke) and the pressure was still at 32lbs. Not complaining just making an observation...
