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I have to run ZDDP boosters in my pickups' oil. Not enough zinc in modern car oils to prevent flattening the lobes on standard non-roller camshafts.
Our bikes (5) take the following as preferred engine oils: Savage 20W50 dino juice, Walmart brand or Rotella; 800 Intruder 10W40 Syntech or 15W40 Delo; project 1957 Panhead 50 weight winter, 70 weight summer, aircraft grade preferred; project 1963 CL72 Honda ND20, ND30, ND40; 1964ish Benelli 2 smokes for the 1971 Rickman standard gear oil, 85W140.
Fork oils? Intruder has whatever crap was factory fill in 1996. Honda has the stock fish oil based goo from 1963, what little it might still have in there anyway. Savage has Castrol Dexron 2 ATF and works better than the stock fork oil. Panhead takes NLGI type 2 grease, bike has a 1930s Knucklehead springer front end. Rickman has no forks, gave them to a friend for his 350 Ducati single, but had whatever was stock in Bator forks.
I'm not spending big bucks for oil that gets changed before it gets too toasted. I tend to use our used bike oils to top off my leaky 1969 Dodge truck's 318. When the bike starts missing shifts, the oil gets changed. Too clean for the oil recycler, regardless of mileage, go figure.
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