Changing air and oil filter - CRF250 plz help

[B0000M]

iv never used it either.

i dunno about your X but both of my Rs the gearbox is on the side and the motor oil is the sump plug underneath

shit i fucked that up, yea your right, ill edit

[Wishtoride]

Ok so I have a fair bit of stuff to work with here, Lucky the flattie has a decent wrench. cheers for the advice guys, probly get working on it this weekend. Will let you know if I fuck anything up haha

[Wishtoride]

Ok got the air filter sorted, no sweat. Put a little grease around the cage just incase. It was looking like there was too much movement in it so the grease should sort that out. Dont have any oil at the moment so will tackle that next. Can you guys recommend a good oil to use or is it not a major?

[theblacksmith]

I always use a little extra foam filter oil around the sealing edge rather than grease.(Applied by rubbing on with finger) Grease is for moving joints where extreme pressure is encountered - not for sealing a vacuum environment.Rotate filter on the oil before tightening nut that holds it on with the cage. Then when I remove the filter for cleaning it leaves a rim of oil on the plastic - clean on the inside always.Its some sticky shite that Bel Ray foam filter oil.Does its job really well though.

[mattwood]

Can you guys recommend a good oil to use or is it not a major?

Im not to sure about the honda, but you could ring a dealer and see what they recommend. But try and buy it from repco or supercheap auto, bike shops normally try to charge an arm and a leg for oils.

[crazyxr250rider]

I recomend Magnatec 10W-40 in the engine and GTX 20W-50 in the gear-box, works well GTX is a stable non friction modified oil and Magnatec a more comlex synthetic fortified oil (basicly more slipery,too slipery for the clutch on bikes anyway).
Both are avaliable at a reasonable price at super cheap.

[kezzafish]

I recomend Magnatec 10W-40 in the engine and GTX 20W-50 in the gear-box, works well GTX is a stable non friction modified oil and Magnatec a more comlex synthetic fortified oil (basicly more slipery,too slipery for the clutch on bikes anyway).
Both are avaliable at a reasonable price at super cheap.

wow, you soulnd like an oil genius? can you reccommend something for my 4stroke that's 10w 50w and fully synthetic and that's "non-friction modified" i use motorex (ktm reccommended) at the mo but it's $112 for 4 litres. What's mobil1's wattage?

[cynna]

Also aren't you ment to make sure the filter rim is greased properly and has a good seal on a 4stroke as shit let in bounces around in the valves and fucks them. So I'm told????

what sort of grease? when i cleaned my air filter it looked like vasaline had been used - is that ok? or do you use normal general purpose grease

i never bothered greasing it after i cleaned it but i suppose it makes sense to stop dust getting in

[crazyxr250rider]

wow, you soulnd like an oil genius? can you reccommend something for my 4stroke that's 10w 50w and fully synthetic and that's "non-friction modified" i use motorex (ktm reccommended) at the mo but it's $112 for 4 litres. What's mobil1's wattage?

Ive never used and wouldnt recomend any fully synthetic car oils for your engine as they would root the clutch, the best value fully synthetic bike specific oil is Total Racing 10w-50 synthetic.
See autolines for a price on a 20L should be under $200.
Apart from that theres Castrol R4 superbike 5w-40, or Power GPS 15w-50.
Dont think i would trust any thing else,ive decided motul is overrated big time......