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Offline Black Dahlia

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Re: 10w-40 or 10w-50
« Reply #15 on: July 22, 2014, 09:59:40 pm »
Wait, D and D, you seem to have your shit together...

Is rotella T ok with our clutch?   Is that what you are saying?
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Re: 10w-40 or 10w-50
« Reply #16 on: July 22, 2014, 10:20:46 pm »
I've only used rotella T triple protection in mine since break in, and I'm just over 10k miles now. I sent a sample to black stone labs for an analysis after putting 4k miles on the oil and they said I could try and run 5,000 miles on the next cycle. On bobistheoilguy.com they say that the rotella T6 shears a lot faster than the dino triple protection. The Dino oil is about $13 for a gallon at my local walmart. I pair it with a wix filter and my bike couldn't be running better. Cost me about $22 for an oil change. 
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Re: 10w-40 or 10w-50
« Reply #17 on: July 22, 2014, 10:27:27 pm »
Quote from: Austinhyd on July 22, 2014, 10:20:46 pm
I've only used rotella T triple protection in mine since break in, and I'm just over 10k miles now. I sent a sample to black stone labs for an analysis after putting 4k miles on the oil and they said I could try and run 5,000 miles on the next cycle. On bobistheoilguy.com they say that the rotella T6 shears a lot faster than the dino triple protection. The Dino oil is about $13 for a gallon at my local walmart. I pair it with a wix filter and my bike couldn't be running better. Cost me about $22 for an oil change.

Sent it to a lab.   Awesome!

Im using rotella T 10-40 semi synthetic with a K&N303.   
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Offline RudeBoltin

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Re: 10w-40 or 10w-50
« Reply #18 on: July 22, 2014, 11:53:31 pm »
I'm not the type to push one thing or another on people, I just like to share what I know.
My opinion on oil and filters are their cheap, even if it runs me close to the $50 range per change. That is cheap in the long run compared to motor work. Plus I figure that I will do one change a year, if lucky maybe two. I will save enough in fuel not driving my Jeep to pay for the oil changes.
Shit I spend $75 every time I change to oil in the Cummins and over $100 if I do fuel filters too. So the bike is cheap.
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Re: 10w-40 or 10w-50
« Reply #19 on: July 24, 2014, 01:09:57 pm »
Quote from: Black Dahlia on July 22, 2014, 09:59:40 pm
Wait, D and D, you seem to have your shit together...

Is rotella T ok with our clutch?   Is that what you are saying?

Yes!  It's an old, ahem, Harley standard.  On the bottle it says JASO standard MA.
http://www.shell.com/rotella/products/tpl-pro.html
People have been using it as long as it's been around.  I just put it in my brothers 1975 Sportster Primary and oil tank.  (It's a dry sump motor with a separate clutch/primary chain oil.) If you're budget conscious it is good oil.  I used it in my first diesel Mercedes and put over 350k mile with no loss in compression over the years.
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Re: 10w-40 or 10w-50
« Reply #20 on: July 24, 2014, 01:33:06 pm »
I use Rotella in my 79 XS650, which is a wet clutch design. Works great in the old beast - especially since Rotella still has zinc in it, and the XS was designed for oil with zinc.  Not really needed in our modern engines, but still works great.

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