nags

About to change the oil on my F4i an usually use 3qt of regular Motul 5100 and a quart of Lucas.

Was just wondering who all uses Lucas these days? I'm always suprised by how few people actually do use it. Seems for what we're doing, it'd be the ****

bornreadybc

i know tony told me to use a quart of that too

but why?

Towlieee

I've read a few articles that lucas causes your oil to foam, trapping air in it and causing your oil to not lube as good


http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/images/lucas/lucas.htm


Of course, the only thing I don't like about this guys test, is he used two completely different oils, and added stabilizer to one and not the other.. HE should have used the SAME oil in both tests, with stabilizer in one..





I personally don't use it, I just toss rotella semi synthetic in my bike and roll with it.. 30k miles and rev limiter daily




edit: doh, are you talking about lucas oil, or lucas oil stabilizer?

Standupnfall

Honda for Honda.

Towlieee

honda oil = over priced dino oil





Although recently I heard they switched to full synthetic, and it's supposed to be 'great stuff'. But that was from a honda employee's mouth lol

Standupnfall

$25 cash for Honda 10w40 oil and Honda filter, works for me

bornreadybc

i use 20w-50

nags

Yea, the thick *** stabilizer ****

Towlieee

You do realize honda oil isn't anything special right? Honda pays whoever bids the cheapest say million gallons of oil, then they put a honda badge on it, and sell it for $5 a quart..

If your gonna spend $5 a quart, might as well get full synthetic!



edit: do note im talking about honda oil in the black bottle... not the new stuff, I don't know **** about it

I personally run rotella (not because I think its some super great oil, because its dirt cheap, and people run it in $500,000 equipment)
with a $2.50 super tech filter lol

*Tanus*

I use to run that in my mustang and it made the oil pressure much more consistant, but I heard it makes clutchs slip on motorcycles. How long have you been running it?If you've been using it for a whille with no ill effects I think I might try it in mine.

nags

A few years now

nags

I think OMR is the on that told me to us it first but I don't remember

Stu-Pac

full synthetic amsoil for me!!!! its the shiz

nags

I wouldn't mind tryin' the Amsoil.. I've just always ran the Motul and didn't even think twice about ordering it.

YSRRider

I was just thinking about syntheic oil today while riding...... I have a 62 on my F4i, it screams on the street. Anyone running a full synthetic that they are happy with? I put Honda in my bike last time I changed it but I cant remember if it was regular or a semi synthetic. When I bought my R1 new in 2000 I put Spectro Gold in for the first oil change and I hated it. The bike didnt shift smooth at all, it would slam into every gear and sometimes I had a hard time getting the bike into neutral when I was stopped. I went to regular spectro and those issues went away. A few people told me that its bad for the clutch to go from synthetic back to regular oil but I didnt seem to have any issues. I still got 13,500 miles out of the stock clutch, I decided to replace it after a night at the drag strip, it still worked good but the metal were a tiny bit warped, the fibers still looked good but I had already bought all the plates so I just put them all in. I switched back to Yamaha oil around 25,000 miles and the bike runs even smoother than with the Spectro.

any other insight on this would be appreciated.

-SKETCHY-

Amsoil 10/40

YSRRider

are you running it? how do you like it? does the bike still shift smooth?

-SKETCHY-

My bike shifts great. I like it, it seems it takes awhile to breakdown/change color.
I have never seen foam bubbles in my sight glass either

YSRRider

whats with the " "?



you trying to give me some bogus info?

-SKETCHY-

yea, bogus info I run milk & cookies in my bike hahaha