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[Streetglide1]

I run Amsoil, the price per quart doesn't concern me...my engine does.

[SDCVO]

I run Amsoil, the price per quart doesn't concern me...my engine does.

For any of us that have replaced a motor I say "spot on"! Not a good place to try and save 5 bucks..

[fastfreddy]

For any of us that have replaced a motor I say "spot on"! Not a good place to try and save 5 bucks..

AO has preferred customer programs out there that make it a no brainier and pricing is crazy good...did i just give up my secret crank case sauce      

[bakon]

Anyone actually know of an engine that went bad from oil in last 15 years? I would have to agree with previous poster the inferior part was more likely the cause. Example SE lifters- many different oils and users but common part to go bad. Doubt oil caused it. Another example ball bearings on 99-01 Tc's cams. Again the part.
Amsoil sells because of the fear oil cant do its job. Most all syn oils will be fine and as proof just look around any major event. Bet there is 50 different combos of oil being used and this last year close to 1,000,000 at Sturgis. Anywhere from new to 100,000 miles on them. Various levels of maintenance and tune. Babied to beat to snot.  Anyone know how many had an oil breakdown there? Impossible to know but again more likely a weak part.

Fear of oil break down sells. Show a part with some wear and blame the oil, scare the consumer into thinking he is next.

[mark]

Anyone actually know of an engine that went bad from oil in last 15 years? I would have to agree with previous poster the inferior part was more likely the cause. Example SE lifters- many different oils and users but common part to go bad. Doubt oil caused it. Another example ball bearings on 99-01 Tc's cams. Again the part.
Amsoil sells because of the fear oil cant do its job. Most all syn oils will be fine and as proof just look around any major event. Bet there is 50 different combos of oil being used and this last year close to 1,000,000 at Sturgis. Anywhere from new to 100,000 miles on them. Various levels of maintenance and tune. Babied to beat to snot.  Anyone know how many had an oil breakdown there? Impossible to know but again more likely a weak part.

Fear of oil break down sells. Show a part with some wear and blame the oil, scare the consumer into thinking he is next.

X2.  Lots of hype out there that if you don't buy the most expensive oil you can find, that your engine will be destroyed.  Great marketing, BTW.

[iski]

Oh no, you're thinking of the ever expanding age of the moderators (he says reverently) there.  I'm a mere child and never knew a time when we didn't run radials.....

I would hate, however, to threadjack with a sidetrack on the age/wisdom of the moderators.  Back to the penultimate value and guidance of the oil thread!

Posts on motorcycle oil are not quite as enlightening as the correct feed to sparkle ratio for flying unicorns.  BTW, it is 5:1. Along the lines of....I have a mechanic/guru/mystic seer friend/brother in law who told me that XYZ oil is total crap made from crappy crap & to only use ZYX oil.

Have found synthetic mc oil varies wildly as to price and not much as to functionality.  Oil filters are much more variable and have found significant differences on functionality but you don't see 2,482 threads on oil filters.

Yet.

[grc]

Posts on motorcycle oil are not quite as enlightening as the correct feed to sparkle ratio for flying unicorns.  BTW, it is 5:1. Along the lines of....I have a mechanic/guru/mystic seer friend/brother in law who told me that XYZ oil is total crap made from crappy crap & to only use ZYX oil.

Have found synthetic mc oil varies wildly as to price and not much as to functionality.  Oil filters are much more variable and have found significant differences on functionality but you don't see 2,482 threads on oil filters.

Yet.

Aw Chit, now you've done it.  Couldn't let sleeping dogs lie, so now we will have 2500 threads started on which oil filters are the best, the ones from JC Whitney that use a roll of toilet paper in a canister, or the ones made out of screen door material that promise massive power increases. 

Jerry

[ultrarider123]

Aw Chit, now you've done it.  Couldn't let sleeping dogs lie, so now we will have 2500 threads started on which oil filters are the best, the ones from JC Whitney that use a roll of toilet paper in a canister, or the ones made out of screen door material that promise massive power increases. 
Jerry

You mean, they don't???  Aw crap....another $100 wasted.....

[iski]

Aw Chit, now you've done it.  Couldn't let sleeping dogs lie, so now we will have 2500 threads started on which oil filters are the best, the ones from JC Whitney that use a roll of toilet paper in a canister, or the ones made out of screen door material that promise massive power increases. 

Jerry

   Naitram would get more hits though.   

I remember those toilet roll oil filters from way back.  And I remember customers who said just change their oil not the filter.  Also remember some gunked up engine tear downs that were a real mess & the boss telling me to come over here & clean this $%*# up because he figured riding his Harley or looking at girly mags was more fun that gunk removal & bent valves & that's what he paid me for....

Screen door wire...never thought of that.    In 2 hours a thread on that would have somebody claiming that chicken wire filters gave them 20% more HP & 3 more mpgs.  Followed soon by the chain link guys.

If there was a way to combine wax/polish/oil/nitrogen/magic spark plug/mysterious fuel & oil treatments into 1 thread maybe titled Fantasy BS Believe It or Not.....there would be a lot less threads.

[MIKEYTEE]

Come on guys, you gotta know that the barbed wire oil filter sold by Tractor Supply and modified by Farmhand Co, is by and large the absolute, onlyest, mostest, bestest filter money or credit can buy. Even the certified oil experts will recommend using it to boost power by 3/10 of 1/2 of .25 percent. And torque is increased by a whopping .00000001 percent as certified on the label. Now this is real improvement that you can take to the bank. I have been using them for as long as Tractor Supply has been selling them. 
Mike
 

[fastfreddy]

WHAT!! you guys know oil alone is not the only secret...of coarse the correct filter has to be in place for the package to work...mix match parts and next thing you got is big hot pile of 

[iski]

[r0de_runr]

LoL, I remember doing that on my Valkyrie.

[Rooster]

I will say if you are in Stugis and decide to use one of the "corner" oil changers better ask to see the filter as I did thank god as it had only 3holes in it don't think that is good enough for a twin cam motor. They better ones but you need to ask. Just thought I would share.

[bakon]

Don't understand the oil change at an event thinking. I used to. I was 2500 and it got to come out or it turns to concrete or gum tar.  Now I follow: Change it before you leave, change it when you get home. So what if you went over 2500, or 3000, or 5000, whatever magic number.

Went coast to coast this year in two and a half weeks, then back home. About 8,000 miles. Oil came out just fine when I got home. 110 degrees to 50 degrees in mountains and no condensation or muck. Because we rode the things....
Remember the old 3 month rule on cars, no matter what mileage???

Sturgis is pretty far for most, plus the miles out there, then home. But if it was ridden the condensation was burned out and we already covered nobody broke down from and oil issue out of the million peolpe there, so ride it home and change it.