Guns and the art of Motorycycle Maint

[mroper]

Does anyone do the wrenching on their Motorcycle. I have added some accessories and lights to my Road King I am going to do an Oil change on mine and thinking about using Amsoil and and one of there Wix filters. Any thoughts or experience ?

 

[scap99]

Amsoil is the shiz!

Used it in my truck and ran that oil for a whole year.


Tapatalk sent it.

 

[kris lee]

I run Mobil 1 full Syn 20w50 with a fram filter. Amsoil is great as well, and Royal Purple.

 

[40Arpent]

Amsoil is the shiz!

+1

I've owned 13 motorcycles, and ran Amsoil in every one of them.

 

[Rangerscott]

I've only heard good things about amsoil. I don't use it because it's too much for my wallet and how fast I rack up miles so I stick with Rotella.

 

[M. Sage]

Wix is good filters on the automotive side. Don't know about the bike filters.

Amsoil is overrated, IMO. I've heard about old QC issues, not sure how true. But it's apparently Ok stuff now. I just don't think it's honestly any better than another good oil like Mobil 1.

 

[Nullrejector]

Amsoil is overrated, IMO. I've heard about old QC issues, not sure how true. But it's apparently Ok stuff now. I just don't think it's honestly any better than another good oil like Mobil 1.

I agree. I always ran Mobil 1 in my bikes.

 

[macshooter]

I used to wrench my '81 GS850, but I stay(ed) out of my newer bikes. I'd wrench a Harley though, seems like everything's right there easy to access. 3 tips for wrenching. 1. Do your research before you start. 2. Refer to step 1. 3. Refer to step 2

 

[96fordsix]

Well I work in a Motorcycle dealership. We men are religous about our oils and all you have listed are fine. Don't know about wix but PLEASE don't use fram filters. So far this year I have seen three motors hurt by those filters. Dry starts and no antidrain valves.

 

[Anger]

Wally world castrol 20W50 in my boxer engines for the last ten years. I don't like pricey motor oils.

 

[deemus]

Wally world castrol 20W50 in my boxer engines for the last ten years. I don't like pricey motor oils.

+1

 

[M. Sage]

Well I work in a Motorcycle dealership. We men are religous about our oils and all you have listed are fine. Don't know about wix but PLEASE don't use fram filters. So far this year I have seen three motors hurt by those filters. Dry starts and no antidrain valves.

Fram sucks. I've seen them plug. Apparently their bypass valves aren't too reliable.

I'm automotive, but as a rule of thumb I prefer to use OE filters on everything. WIX is usually acceptable, but I mostly work on Euro cars. OE only on Euro trash.

 

[kris lee]

Well I work in a Motorcycle dealership. We men are religous about our oils and all you have listed are fine. Don't know about wix but PLEASE don't use fram filters. So far this year I have seen three motors hurt by those filters. Dry starts and no antidrain valves.

Yeah after finding several filter comparisons on youtube...I won't be using Fram filters anymore... I'm switching to K&N for my H-D from now on out...thanks for the info.

( WARNING ) For You Fram Oil Filter Lover's.YouTube - YouTube

 

[AaronP220]

I run amsoil and my bike lives at 15,000+ RPM.

 

[Rangerscott]

I use puralotor gold filters on all my engines.

 

[jtriron]

Not sure about the filter question, but Mobil 1 is good oil.

 

[kris lee]

Not sure about the filter question, but Mobil 1 is good oil.

+1

 

[TheDan]

Whatever dino oil is on sale at the time is what I use. People get too bent out of shape over oil... Just change it at your recommended interval (or sooner if your manufacturer is one of the numbskulls that say you're good for a 10,000mi oil changes). A good filter is a must, tho. Wix is probably cream of the crop when it comes to filters.

 

[DirtyD]

Does this count as wrenching?

 

[M. Sage]

Whatever dino oil is on sale at the time is what I use. People get too bent out of shape over oil... Just change it at your recommended interval (or sooner if your manufacturer is one of the numbskulls that say you're good for a 10,000mi oil changes). A good filter is a must, tho. Wix is probably cream of the crop when it comes to filters.

To a large degree they do, but there are engines out there that will choke to death on dino, even with good intervals. And there are more and more of those engines coming out every year.

+1 to numbskulls calling for 10,000 mile intervals. I think BMW is up to 16,000 or more now. Morons. I've seen what happens to engines when you go that long, even if you're using the best oil.