Oil is very thin - Like water almost?
#12
Ok thanks! And yes, diesel oil. Apprently it's much better than normal oil, can't tell you more than that. My fathers sbeen using it in all his bikes since he was young with always good results, I trust his word specially that he's a heavy machinery mechanic. Although I don't have any facts about it, i'll just take his word.
Having never seen an oil related failure over a couple decades in and around a motorcycle shop, no big deal.
As for thin, if you warmed the engine for the change, you are simply seeing how easily oil flows at that temperature. That is also part of the reason for warm up - get the oil to flow out of the engine easily.
#13
Another reason for the warm up is to have the "bad" stuff suspended in the oil rather than settled out.
#16
I think I'm running 10w40 in all my bikes. I've been running Rotella because it is reasonable pricing and has the JASO-MA rating for motorcycles with wet clutch and gear box in oil. The Yamaha is doing Yamaha oil just because... because that's what I bought when I got a filter. I just do motorcycle rated oil is all.
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