Coming up on doing my first oil change in my harley (05 superglide), what oil do you guys recommend?. Cheers.
Coming up on doing my first oil change in my harley (05 superglide), what oil do you guys recommend?. Cheers.
i recommend you RTFM.
Yea I did, and read online, 20w50 synthetic, with amsoil & mobil 1 being the best. But that oil is ridiculously expensive over here. So just wondering what you guys use.
Ring a Harley dealer. I dunno about the current bikes, but good oil fucks the old ones. I'm not joking.
They have roller bearings at the big end of the rods. High quality oil means the rollers slide on the crank rather than roll. Once they do that for a bit the rollers flat spot and develop play...then really really bad shit happens.
Yes oils are rediculously expensive here
as is just about everything else.....
Fwiw i put in mobil v twin oil.....
Have used mobil 1 previously as well
riding bikes in NZ is not for the poor
Opinions are like arseholes: Everybody has got one, but that doesn't mean you got to air it in public all the time....
Im just going off of those 2, like 30 - 40 a liter, but i look on other sites and e.g. castrol you can get 4l for that price. Do you guys all use the expensive stuff or something? are other brands not as good?
I have always used Mobil 1 V Twin on my Harleys (past) $30/litre at Ripco. The V rod always used oil if I used anything else, dont know why but never used oil when I used Mobil 1. My manual says synthetic is ok, never gave me any issue.
The way I look at it is, youve invested a shit load on a bike, feed it the best you can with oil and gas. Tyres are the same, why risk your life on cheap shit?
for what its worth, I have run commercial boats, trucks, loaders and excavators, cars and bikes on synthetic for years and have never had a lubrication failure cost me a breakdown or engine failure.
The old saying, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Cheers for the advice skippa. Im pretty new to bikes in general, and by the sounds of things everyone rolls with those oils.
Diesel oil is the go.
Amsoil is good shit. But you pay for it.
How many kms on the clock of your ride?
I use the genuine 20/50 harley stuff from the dealer.... not the fancy synth stuff & it's cheap (y)
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I use Syn 3 the harley oil or Mobil 1 V2. It depends if I do the service or the shop does it.
My bike has just done 100,000 and is running perfectly well on synthetic lube. I like just having one oil for all 3 cases. I dont have any experience with dino based lubes in HD's.
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