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My 82 GL 1100 Maiden Voyage
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<blockquote data-quote="TMF" data-source="post: 225879" data-attributes="member: 5959"><p>I don't like that oil and weight for two reasons. First, my '03 Suzuki SV1000S had an audible bearing knock at idle on that oil once hot and at only 2K miles on the oil. That was 15K miles ago. The knock went away after changing away from Rotella and has not returned. The Suzy has 30K miles on it now and again there's no knock. I'm currently running Castrol 0W40 gasoline engine oil on several bikes. It's not an energy conserving oil and offers much better cold startup protection and is good enough for the best European turbo engines. Reason two: I acquired an '02 Ducati 900 sport with 10K miles and changed to Rotella. The Duc's aircooled engine topend was noisy at startup but I didn't think much of it. By 15K miles rings were shot and massive blowby overwhelmed the underseat oil tank and flowed down into the airbox then began leaking everywhere. Diesel engines have different requirements than gas engines and 15W oil at startup is a bad idea. Use gasoline engine oil.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TMF, post: 225879, member: 5959"] I don't like that oil and weight for two reasons. First, my '03 Suzuki SV1000S had an audible bearing knock at idle on that oil once hot and at only 2K miles on the oil. That was 15K miles ago. The knock went away after changing away from Rotella and has not returned. The Suzy has 30K miles on it now and again there's no knock. I'm currently running Castrol 0W40 gasoline engine oil on several bikes. It's not an energy conserving oil and offers much better cold startup protection and is good enough for the best European turbo engines. Reason two: I acquired an '02 Ducati 900 sport with 10K miles and changed to Rotella. The Duc's aircooled engine topend was noisy at startup but I didn't think much of it. By 15K miles rings were shot and massive blowby overwhelmed the underseat oil tank and flowed down into the airbox then began leaking everywhere. Diesel engines have different requirements than gas engines and 15W oil at startup is a bad idea. Use gasoline engine oil. [/QUOTE]
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