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Originally Posted By: montero1 Originally Posted By: sunruh OP you says the low susvis is fine but have you metalurgically verified that all of the gears in your tranny dont have any micropitting? have you proven that none of your thrust bearings dont have any galling or streaks? care to...

Originally Posted By: alarmguy Originally Posted By: Revelate

Originally Posted By: alarmguy BTW - Torrance Police department Leaving Harley for Honda whom Honda American headquarters happen to be in the same city, Torrance and not only that, the model Honda they are replacing the Harleys with have been called downright dangerous by a police department in...

While I also have experience with a variety of brands and owned and ridden many motorcycles including a variety of H.D's, I believe your outlook on Harley and their company is a little optimistic. They would have went Bankrupt had it not been for Regan aiding them in tariff taxes to the...

Great link, you beat me to posting it! I agree completely, whatever marketing group that developed the literature (along with Schaeffer for not proof reading the technical statements/specs) are completely incorrect and ill-advised on their JASO specs. JASO MA2 has the highest coefficient of...

Dang it, already beat me to it with the FJR1300 and VMAX! The Super Tenere from Yamaha is shafts drive as well.

Wish we had your lower prices! Prices for E10 Regular is at $2.54 in town (top tier fuel usually about 10 cents per gallon more expensive). Diesel is at $2.49 a gallon.

Bad news BLS, I know of your love for Honda's and Mobil's AFE 0W30, but that Yamaha R1 you're sitting on specifies ONLY the use of 10W40 or 15W50 full synthetic oil! (pg. 7-14) Yamaha Motors 2015 Yamaha R1 Owners Manual

Originally Posted By: Jasper8146 When I was using Valvoline Synpower, the UOA's came back with elevated levels of sodium and those high levels did mask whether or not coolant was in my engine oil. I had a concern about that due to the oil level increasing. That said, am not aware of any other...

Originally Posted By: Gokhan As far as I remember, the only reason why the all-calcium oil performed poorly in the Chevron Oronite paper was that it had a very low initial TBN. Shell believes in all-calcium oils, even for HDEO. Other oil blenders experiment with magnesium now and then. If you...

Originally Posted By: Gokhan Originally Posted By: Voltmaster As far as chemistry goes, they are both in group II so they will try to bound with similar compounds/molecules. Mg and Ca have similar reactivity properties. Since Ca is heavier it will be better oxidized, making it a better reducing...

Hi all, long time viewer of BITOG, and excited for my first post! After reading and studying the topic here and in other research papers/books, I'm curious which detergent formulation could be considered better either in PCMO/HDEO applications? Many threads here that i've looked at seem to be...