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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Lake Cle Elum - Eastern WA.
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This special oil thing for a "wet clutch" is way over-rated....Back before that was even available, I ran two motorcycles to over 100,000 miles w/o changing a clutch. Always just a good grade of 10-40W oil and changed it every 3,000 miles......
My current main street bike has 94,500 miles.....I run Rotella synthetic in it changing every 5,000. Some said the clutch would slip with synthetic.....Never happened, clutch is good as new and engine runs like new. (Honda St-1300)
For specialty motorcycle oils, I would only worry about it in an Air-Cooled engine that spends a lot of time at low speed w/o much cooling air. Would maybe apply to some ATV work and a Harley cruiser that spends a lot of time in low speed traffic.
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Bob S.
73.5 911T
1969 911T Coo' pay (one owner)
1960 Mercedes 190SL
1962 XKE Roadster (sold) - 13 motorcycles
Last edited by LakeCleElum; 12-12-2011 at 11:46 AM..
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