Amsoil metric oil

[Speedbird001]

2008 Roadliner (1,800 cc, air cooled, V-twin, Yamaha power-cruiser). For years I always used the Yamalube, but the price kept going up and a Blackstone report showed it was really nothing special. Dealer started stocking Amsoil price was a few bucks less so that's what I have been using last 4 years or so. No complaints and no noticeable difference in noise vs Yamalube or Motul. I always think I'm going to go for something more boutique, but never happens. Disclaimer; I do an annual change and only seem to get in 1-2k a year these days, so no idea how longer harder use would fair.

 

[Mackelroy]

Wonder if you got a bad batch of oil. If it did that in your case even after a clutch rebuild with stiffer springs, I'd think all kinds of bikes using it would do the same thing.

500cc dirt bikes, tend to have clutches that are near limitation of the design, and run 250cc through 500's same clutch.

It wasnt all the same batch and the time period worked with was several months, and years. I ran this oil intermittently one change here or there. It wasnt till I went exclusive with a couple changes, then the issue really stood out. I had already moved to the heavier spring likely a year before going to the oil exclusively, and I went to that heavy spring, cause felt like some mild slippage.

I can run that oil right now, if I just mix in half a quart, with its sister Dino version.

 

[Bonz]

2008 Roadliner (1,800 cc, air cooled, V-twin, Yamaha power-cruiser). For years I always used the Yamalube, but the price kept going up and a Blackstone report showed it was really nothing special. Dealer started stocking Amsoil price was a few bucks less so that's what I have been using last 4 years or so. No complaints and no noticeable difference in noise vs Yamalube or Motul. I always think I'm going to go for something more boutique, but never happens. Disclaimer; I do an annual change and only seem to get in 1-2k a year these days, so no idea how longer harder use would fair.

No problem running the Amsoil, however I would put it in the boutique category. 1k to 2K a year on mileage regardless of which synthetic, to my mind doesn't necessitate synthetic at all. If that bike has 2,000 Mi a year for 17 years, that is 17 oil changes in 34,000 mi. If it's closer to 1,000 miles a year, 17 oil changes in 17,000 mi. The math probably doesn't need to be shown but when looking at the numbers sometimes it puts things into perspective of is it that necessary. There's no issue to leave the oil in for a couple riding seasons, get the full use out of it that it was designed for. It's been shown fairly regularly that time is not an issue on oil with respect to how an engine responds. It's purely a human response.

 

[goingplacesanddoingstuff]

No problem running the Amsoil, however I would put it in the boutique category. 1k to 2K a year on mileage regardless of which synthetic, to my mind doesn't necessitate synthetic at all. If that bike has 2,000 Mi a year for 17 years, that is 17 oil changes in 34,000 mi. If it's closer to 1,000 miles a year, 17 oil changes in 17,000 mi. The math probably doesn't need to be shown but when looking at the numbers sometimes it puts things into perspective of is it that necessary. There's no issue to leave the oil in for a couple riding seasons, get the full use out of it that it was designed for. It's been shown fairly regularly that time is not an issue on oil with respect to how an engine responds. It's purely a human response.

Running Amsoil is mere extra $85-170 over that 17 years. That’s a no-brainer to me in a high strung wet clutch machine that sees intermittent use.

 

[thetricky]

So really this points at KTM clutch material selection not Amsoil.

Most certainly. Granted, metric Amsoil worked fine in my brand-new duke 390, I promptly got rid of it…..for other quality reasons!

 

[Bonz]

Running Amsoil is mere extra $85-170 over that 17 years. That’s a no-brainer to me in a high strung wet clutch machine that sees intermittent use.

The bike is a (Yamaha) Star Roadliner 1800. That is about as far from high strung as you can get. It makes some good torque but the red line is like just above 5,000 RPM. Looks like the oil change interval recommendation is 4000 mi. A respected conventional oil will do just as well as the synthetic over the short oil change intervals of a thousand miles a year, leave it in for 2 years. If he's going to go the full 2000 miles a year, go to a synthetic and change it every 4,000 which works out to every 2 years as well. It has been proven that miles not time are more necessary to pay attention to, don't have much more to say about it than that.