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Canadian Daves JustKDX
Final Thought on ATF TYPE F
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[QUOTE="BRush, post: 550020, member: 18729"] Jaybird is exactly right. Kawasaki did not go out and fund a study to test every gear, motor, and ATF oil on the market before making their decision. They looked to the requirements of the motor, and recommended a lubricant that their institutional experience told them would be satisfactory. Probably took all of five minutes in a meeting. It is a logical disconnect to assume that because the mfgr specifies [i]one thing[/i] that will work satisfactorily, it means it is [i] the only thing[/i] that will work. If any of you are new to this issue, keep this in mind as you read: none of the nay-sayers in this thread have offered up any serious argument to support their implication that ATF is somehow damaging to your (two stroke) gearbox. It is not. Better arguments against ATF than seen here have been posted, discussed and refuted one-by-one with reasoned, technical arguments in many previous threads. The better ones are still in the archives. In addition to the technical merits (and as Jaybird accurately points out) there has already been a large real world trial of the suitability of ATF: Thousands of actual riders using it in their bikes with success for many years, and no flood of gearbox failures have appeared. The only argument against ATF that makes any sense is the one that Bill Hibbs makes, and that is the argument of personal preference and perceived benefit i.e. "I use < [i] insert high dollar brand name here [/i]> oil because it makes my bike shift like a dream". Ironically, that is exactly the argument that also supports ATF use. Those of us who use it, do so because we get some benefit from it. In my case better clutch action and better cold weather shifting. If there was no benefit, I'd be using something else. [/QUOTE]
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