Harley Oil, Any Good?

or move to another town

Wish I could, but work keeps me here. That, and an abundance of good lookin' single women

I'm workin' on it.

Naw... just get her to let ya have her garage....n come over when you gotta change yer oil...:roflmao:

I picked up a quart of Amsoil 20 W 50 yesterday at an INDY shop. They didn't have time to change it for me. They use the same oil for the gears as well, but Amsoil's people recommended this: " The Harley part number for the alternate is 99887-84. Replace is with AMSOIL SVT, 75W110 Gear Lube"

Since the shop didn't carry this type of Amsoil, I'm going to order it on line and then let my dealer change it, since I need one or two other things looked at anyway. I vaguely recall either the Amsoil guy or the HD service manager ( I forget) mention something about 6 speed tranny's needing friction modifiers because some synthetics may cause slippage. I hope the SVT and the Amsoil 20 W 50 will help, since I am getting a little clutch slippage. One reason I'm going to let HD change my oil is to have them look at the clutch plates. If they''re not worn, I'll have them do another clutch adjustment and probably won't have to pay for it if they messed it up a little in the first place.

If'n you had a small drain pan, a small funnel some disposalable diapers. Some plastic bags to put everything in.

Look in the manual that came with yer bike, It will show you where the motor drain plug is.

You could drain yer oil in the drain pan.
Pull yer own oil filer. Wipe everything down with paper towels.
The diapers are to keep everything off the floor.
Put just a small amount of oil in the oil filter and screw it on and git some o rings for the drain plug. The Ace Hardware and or the HD dealer carryies these o rings.
So you can make sure when you look at the oring that if its damaged you can replace it.
Put the oil back in yer motor and crank yer bike and let it sit for a few minutes and check the oil.
Take the drain pan and funnel and drain it back into the bottles that you poured the oil from.
I like saving Gallon bottles for this too.
Now you can take the old oil and old oil filter to any auto parts stores, or
folks that takes oil.
take yer bike out on the street and git something to spray on the area where the oil filter is and spray it down with water.
This way you can change yer own oil and save a lot of money.
And its a lot easier then you realize.

I was gonna talk about the cardboard to go under the filer but everybody keeps wanting to call me on the phone.
Guess I'm gonna have to cut it off.

changing from different types of oil ain't gonna cause a clutch to slip.
Going from organic to synthetic and back a few times too many can cause sludge and gum to buildup on the clutch plates.
I use synthetic oil in my primary and have never had a problem.
if you want to use what the dealer uses put formula plus in it.

Bought me a new Scavenger oil change system. Will use on my new bike as well. it completely removes all old oil when changing oil. It flushes the motor and lines out totally leaving no "old Dirty oil" in the motor at all. i paid like a 100. for it

When talkin to the stealer about doin big bore kit he wants to put dino oil in for first 500 miles, any thoughts?
I've got Amsoil syn 20W-50 in everything now and noticed decent drop in engine temps (5-10* max) everything else has been good!

It doesn't make any difference!

And I know its just my OPINION, BUTT I got to say it.
I think the oil scavenger system is a total waste of money.
Don't know why everybody thinks they got to git everydrop of oil out of they bike.
If you keep yer oil and filter changed every 3000 miles the bike is gonna last longer than you would expect.
When I used to have my 64 Pan Head. I only changed the oil 1 time a year.
And I rode it forever on Dino oil.
People wake up !:rant:

Me thinks Cardboard is gettin back to his old self!!

But why dino oil for just the first 500m?

Talked to the technical dept with Amsoil and Mobile 1 and somebody else about this same question.
All of them told me it doesn't make any difference.
What they said is when you put the motorcycle together, put some oil on the piston skirts.
So its just a personal preference:gah:
When I build my engine I used synthetic Amsoil or was it Mobile 1 I got from Walley World.
And I run the snot out of my bike.

Chucktx probaly remembers. I dun forgot.