• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

What Oil Are You Using?

Yeah, but don't let the bike sit there idling for more than a minute or two, the twin cam heads run hot at idle... I warm mine up for about a minute in the mornings then ride it easy for the first few miles.
 
BTW -- I just got back from WalMart. Rotella T6 for $21.36 a gallon. :applause:

and...it is JASO-MA certified. Right there on the bottle. Suitable for common sump applications (motor, trans, clutch...).
 
Wal-mart Supertech 20w-50 in the summer, 10w 50 in the winter, what ever is cheapest and change it every 500 miles or so.
 
I just did my first oil and filter change at 200 miles. I used Motul 5100 15w50, but may switch to the Rotella T6 that many others are using.

The oil looked fine, but there was a lot of little sand grain sized metal pieces caught in the screens. The magnetic plug was covered with a bit of metallic sludge. I'll change the oil and filter again at 1000 miles, hopefully I won't see as much garbage.
 
pinocono said:
I just did my first oil and filter change at 200 miles. I used Motul 5100 15w50, but may switch to the Rotella T6 that many others are using.

The oil looked fine, but there was a lot of little sand grain sized metal pieces caught in the screens. The magnetic plug was covered with a bit of metallic sludge. I'll change the oil and filter again at 1000 miles, hopefully I won't see as much garbage.
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Very typical in all makes of new bikes as the gears mesh & metal flies!!!
 
Shell Rotella T 15W40. Shifts smoother and for the entire period between oil changes. As was said earlier, $13 a gallon at Walmart.

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BadMotoWeazal said:
Very typical in all makes of new bikes as the gears mesh & metal flies!!!
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I haven't seen this much debris in the other 5 new bikes I've bought in the last 10 years. Granted, none of them had the steel screens to trap the larger bits, they could have been in the oil filter. All had magnetic drain plugs, and were much cleaner than the 630's. I'm not going to worry about it, I didn't see anything that looked like something was disintegrating, just looked like machined parts weren't cleaned and/or deburred very well in manufacturing.
 
We Pulled and cleaned screens and changed oil and filter with 10-W-50 Full Synthetic Castrol RS 4T Racing oil.
2011 SMS 630 Owners Book says Power 1 Castrol 10/50 .power 1 Must be Euro-oil .

This is the Good Stuff . Costs you about $35.00 to load your Machine with 2 Bottles of this Full Synthetic Castrol And a new Filter. :cry:
 
Silkolene 15w-50 Pro 4 SX

I went in for Motorex 10w-60 Cross Power (I use Motorex 10w-60 Power Synt in my Guzzi) and they only had one bottle....and I've used Silkolene many times and like it.

Have tried every other oil mentioned except Rotella, and have no doubt they would all be good choices.
 
Most oils work well. The trick to slick changing and engine longevity is regular oil changes. Particularly bikes wher the clutch and engine oil are one and the same. I change my Dirt bike oil after every 3 rides and the filter every second oil change.
On my road bike (ducati multistrada) I change it every 6000 kms which is half manufacturers recommendation ie twice as often.
 
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