Oil filter
#61
You do 3K on the KLX? with only a quart and a half of oil? I change it every 1000 miles, i also use semi synthetic oil.
#62
I usually do about 3000 miles on a filter but change the oil at about 1000 mile intervals. Having monitored the water temps on my digital Vapor instrument panel, I don't think temperature is a problem for our oil. I think the fact that we have a wet clutch and tranny sharing our engine's oil is the main issue. Gears can shear oil molecule chains and the clutch leaves more particles in the oil than any other element in the engine. It's really the shearing and clutch issue that causes the requirement for more robust oil IMO. I don't think our engine components themselves are that hard on the oil...at least compared to engines in general.
#63
By all accounts, you must admit that it was going pretty smoothly (the conversation/orientation of the filter instructions) until post #8 when EMS shows a CLOSE UP picture of the filter with an obvious HOLE IN EACH END, then tries to convince the OP/all others that the filter only has a hole in 1 end.
Just my observation.
I am late to the party, but post #8 still shows the filter with a HOLE IN EACH END as well as text below it trying to convince the original poster/all readers otherwise. Not trying to Hate, just calling it how I see/read it.
Good luck with your motor reassembly
Just my observation.
I am late to the party, but post #8 still shows the filter with a HOLE IN EACH END as well as text below it trying to convince the original poster/all readers otherwise. Not trying to Hate, just calling it how I see/read it.
Good luck with your motor reassembly
#64
Yeah, dont know wtf semi synthetic oil is but if EMS really means he uses 'Synthetic-Blend' oils in his bike then it means that he is getting the best of both worlds.
Synthetics and dinosaurs. I like 'em too.
Synthetics and dinosaurs. I like 'em too.
#65
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Last edited by jeffzx9; 02-01-2012 at 04:09 PM.
#66
By all accounts, you must admit that it was going pretty smoothly (the conversation/orientation of the filter instructions) until post #8 when EMS shows a CLOSE UP picture of the filter with an obvious HOLE IN EACH END, then tries to convince the OP/all others that the filter only has a hole in 1 end.
#68
i have heard many people use the term semi synthetic... i used to work at a quick lube everyone there used that term...
#70
By all accounts, you must admit that it was going pretty smoothly (the conversation/orientation of the filter instructions) until post #8 when EMS shows a CLOSE UP picture of the filter with an obvious HOLE IN EACH END, then tries to convince the OP/all others that the filter only has a hole in 1 end.
Just my observation.
I am late to the party, but post #8 still shows the filter with a HOLE IN EACH END as well as text below it trying to convince the original poster/all readers otherwise. Not trying to Hate, just calling it how I see/read it.
Good luck with your motor reassembly
Just my observation.
I am late to the party, but post #8 still shows the filter with a HOLE IN EACH END as well as text below it trying to convince the original poster/all readers otherwise. Not trying to Hate, just calling it how I see/read it.
Good luck with your motor reassembly
On semi-synthetic, I think the term is fine to describe half or partial mixes of conventional and synthetic oils. I was just being a smarta$$ like EMS.