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Canadian Daves JustKDX
Synthetic oil in the bottom end?
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[QUOTE="COMBEN, post: 1028649, member: 16671"] For what it's worth here are thoughts. At the moment I'm using Silkone synthetic 10/40 gear oil and honestly there is no difference I can feel whatsoever in the gear change or clutch feel quality..I'm only using the Silkolene as I have a bottle that has been sitting on my shelf unused for a while :) ! Once this is used up I will go back to using normal 10w40 but something with a API SH or above rating, 'above' meaning a later letter. This SAE rating will be on the bottle. The manual says SE or above but I think you would hard pushed to find a SE rated oil for sale nowadays as this was more a 80's spec' motor oil. If you really want to use Synthetic (sounds very sexy!) it sure won't hurt anything more than your wallet :nod: .....I personally feel (and the manual agrees) that it's fine to use a 'name brand' mineral motor oil.... I know that oil all comes out of a hole in the ground but you do get what you pay for, the msot importnt thing is to just change it very often...the manual says every 600 miles but I prefer to change it far more often, say every 2 hours. When you drop the old oil you can see normally see a shiny silvery slick floating on and in the used oil, this is generally from the aluminum clutch components as they wear contaminating the oil - especially if you like a lot of 'clutch lever fanning' - and you don't want that nastyness floating around the gearbox too long it can't be too good for your internals! hope this helps Richard [/QUOTE]
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