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From: Ocean View, DE
OIL THREAD HIJAAK????
Well...I bought the bike as a leftover in 2010, part of the sales deal was 3 years of maintenance for FREE (what's in the book... add for any extras like syn oil) So, I was cheap and stuck with dino oil for the 1st 3 years (about 60k). I think I got my monies worth on the service promotion.
When I took over maintenance I switched to Mobile 1 VTwin.
Well...I bought the bike as a leftover in 2010, part of the sales deal was 3 years of maintenance for FREE (what's in the book... add for any extras like syn oil) So, I was cheap and stuck with dino oil for the 1st 3 years (about 60k). I think I got my monies worth on the service promotion.
When I took over maintenance I switched to Mobile 1 VTwin.
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From: Ocean View, DE
I had an inner primary bearing failure early on, and have replaced in several more times whenever it has been apart. I upgraded the clutch and spring somewhere along the line, installed the 255 cams.
Last summer, I had a transimission seal leak that was on the main gear which requires dissassembly of the transmisison. After looking at lots of options, I ended up getting the trans rebuilt by Baker for less than I could have done it for (with cost of tools etc.), and upgraded the compensator while in there (I think the comp failure contributed to the trans failure). Replace a stator just after that
Since the forks were due for the 50k service, I upgraded the front end this xmas.
One interesting thing...when I had the primary off for the cams/compensator, I did notice that the shop that had done the previous IPB job did not put in the circlip correctly (blocked the oil journal). This kind of thing is mainly why I do my own work. I would really prefer not to.
Last edited by Terryjft; Mar 22, 2015 at 03:29 PM.
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