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2 stroke gear oil grey.
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Why i stopped using cheap 2 stroke oil.
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Gray gear oil help.
Iirc your buell has a dry clutch inside the primary case so you can use oils with friction modifiers if you wish as there s nothing but gears and bearings inside the transmission.
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By 2 sm0ker january 26 2017 in ktm 2 stroke.
When i started riding dirt bikes as a kid i used a lot of cheap 2 stroke oils.
If it is coming from the engine coolant then you will show a loss of coolant fairly quickly and the oil will keep coming out gray white sticky gooey mess is bad for the bearings.
Thay generally means no molybdenum teflon or other friction reducers in it.
For the first two changes that i mentioned above some clean used motor oil will suffice.
There are not a lot of how to videos to diy the trans.
We recently changed the gearbox gear oil in our 1989 yamaha 2 stroke street legal dirt bike motorcycle.
I have gone back forth in my 2 strokes between rotella honda gn4 cannot tell the difference.
Why is my tranny oil gray.
Ktm 2 stroke.
I use rotella in the white bottle for all my 2 strokes rated same as all motorcylce specific oils cost alot less i chane my oils every 1 2 hrs on all my bikes.
3 03 27 2004 02 18 pm thump this.
I also changed my bike every 6 months so i had no idea what these oils were doing to my engine in the long term.
And if you disagree tell it to vic krause mr know it all he just rips on guys using pennzoil in their bikes.
The 2 stroke typically has a wet clutch so the oil must be wet clutch compatible.
If you are a heavy clutch abuser change your oil regularly.
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Use a good gear lube made for motorcycles your bike will shift better and last longer and your clutch will love you.
Unlike a four stroke engine whose crankcase is closed except for its ventilation system a two stroke engine uses the crankcase as part of the induction tract and therefore oil must be mixed with gasoline to be.
In my crf i run higher quality oil in the top end side just to be safe.
Posted january 26 2017.
I have an 03 yz 250 2stroke and im.
I used cheap oils for around 4 years until i bought a 2 stroke road bike that i decided to keep.