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    With the tire threads back up and the "What's your bike worth" posting, I just thought I'd ask....


    What is your favorite oil to use on these bikes?



    Tod
    Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

    You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

    Current bikes:
    '06 Suzuki DR650
    *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
    '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
    '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
    '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
    '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
    '81 XS1100 Special
    '81 YZ250
    '80 XS850 Special
    '80 XR100
    *Crashed/Totalled, still own

  • #2
    I'm thinking about switching to canola oil. I don't seem to be having much luck with the engine type. Started hearing a knock in my new engine today, so I'm pretty bummed. Being for all intents and purposes at the moment unemployed (still gotta go to work but coming up on a second payday with no pay, come the 5th, no paycheck I stop working and apply for unemployment) I can't afford to try and fix it again. I'm not going to sell it, but I may have to give up riding for a couple of years while I tear it down and fix everything right (and I do mean everything, if I have to do this it's going to be a 100% restore). I may just run it tell it grenades and then start working on it, I just don't know now.
    Cy

    1980 XS1100G (Brutus) w/81H Engine
    Duplicolor Mirage Paint Job (Purple/Green)
    Vetter Windjammer IV
    Vetter hard bags & Trunk
    OEM Luggage Rack
    Jardine Spaghetti 4-2 exhaust system
    Spade Fuse Box
    Turn Signal Auto Cancel Mod
    750 FD Mod
    TC Spin on Oil Filter Adapter (temp removed)
    XJ1100 Front Footpegs
    XJ1100 Shocks

    I was always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one.

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    • #3
      I use the black kind, because it is the color of my cold heart............
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      1980 XS11 Special - chopped, dropped and OCTY is still installed - NOW IT'S FOR SALE! $1,800 OBO


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      • #4
        Baby oil here.It smells so fresh
        80 SG XS1100
        14 Victory Cross Country

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        • #5
          Originally posted by trbig View Post
          What is your favorite oil
          I like the Castrol

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          2H7 (79) owned since '89
          3H3 owned since '06

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          • #6
            No one has mentioned the baby Harp seal oil. Very fine but pretty pricey on the left coast.
            RIP Whiskers (Shop Boss) 25+yrs

            "It doesn't hurt until you find out no one is looking"

            Everything on hold...

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            • #7
              hi tr

              Originally posted by trbig View Post
              With the tire threads back up and the "What's your bike worth" posting, I just thought I'd ask....


              What is your favorite oil to use on these bikes?


              Tod
              well tod;; no wonder you have so many posts seems like when you have absolutely nothing to add you resort to the lowest form well have fun painting a picture of yourself for me to pin a tail on ,,slow mo
              The Belfast Express {1980 xs11oo special/TC fuse box/mikes xs pods/bad boy horn!/mikes green coils/mac 4 into 2 exhaust/ standard bars/vetter fairing c/w ipod CD iphone am/fm radio/tkat fork brace ,,,tuned by tinman
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              i AM THE KING OF NOTHING

              the people here are great , doesn't matter about the bike really/hamjam ////

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              • #8
                save the whales?

                Whale oil is just sooo hard to get these days!luckily I live about a mile from seaworld maybe I can get some there!
                Originally posted by latexeses View Post
                No one has mentioned the baby Harp seal oil. Very fine but pretty pricey on the left coast.
                91 kwaka kz1000p
                Stock


                ( Insert clever quote here )

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                • #9
                  I like to use new oil.
                  Ich habe dich nicht gefragt.

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                  • #10
                    Anointment oil, I can use all the help I can get!

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by trbig View Post
                      With the tire threads back up and the "What's your bike worth" posting, I just thought I'd ask....


                      What is your favorite oil to use on these bikes?
                      God I hate you guys!
                      '81 Venturer U.S. Navy Air Commemorative
                      '79 Special

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                      • #12
                        Quote:
                        Originally Posted by trbig
                        With the tire threads back up and the "What's your bike worth" posting, I just thought I'd ask....


                        What is your favorite oil to use on these bikes?

                        ________
                        Ok ... I'll bite what's oil?


                        mro

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Russ79 View Post
                          God I hate you guys!
                          Feel the love? Go with it.

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                          • #14
                            love?............heck, thinkin me and Shell Rotella gonna part ways if it don't quit givin' it up to my XSscoot. Vav20/50 wouldn't give it up like that, as in none..............guess I'll just go with it......
                            81H Venturer1100 "The Bentley" (on steroids) 97 Yamaha YZ250(age reducer) 92 Honda ST1100 "Twisty"(touring rocket) Age is relative to the number of seconds counted 'airing' out an 85ft. table-top.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by motoman View Post
                              love?............heck, thinkin me and Shell Rotella gonna part ways if it don't quit givin' it up to my XSscoot. Vav20/50 wouldn't give it up like that, as in none..............guess I'll just go with it......
                              Ebonics, an english based dialect I've never been able to really get a handle on.

                              However, da Rotella git -------- aww flippin forget it.

                              It'll make the clutch slip like h-ll!

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