Free shot #1Scorched earth and coked bearings, hey?
Let me address your first red letter volley.
Agreed -- but 5 points on starting weight isn't very much difference.You yourself must agreed using T6 5W40 – it’s a big difference. 10 points, but who’s counting?
Second red letter volley
Actually, it stands for Triple Protection.According to the Shell link – Shell Rotella T motor oil with Triple Protection Technology is our most significant advancement in heavy-duty motor oil in 30 years. Funny that it was called “T” for 30 years and then came up with TPT just lately for it to stand for T. Next thing you know, instead of nitrogen they will be putting skittles in their gas – it’s sucker bait, my friend.
Third red letter volley
Share some source material with us that says an oil molecule (no matter how bunched up you want to make it) cannot fit into the oil film clearance in even the tightest manufactured engine. Here's my source that says otherwise.While I never said that they can’t fit, they will end up starving the film longer at startup, and by your link it proves that their size is measurable. They wouldn’t work as intended and end up as something thicker than 15-40.
tldr: Cold thick oil pumps slower than thin oil.
Fourth red letter volley
Actually, it says JASO MA MA2 approved motorcycle oil right on the bottle. Sorry, that bottle and product in the picture does not say that. Actually, Shell’s site says
API CJ-4, CI-4 PLUS, CI-4, CH-4, CF, SM,
SL, SJ, SH; ACEA E9, E7; JASO DH-2, MA;
Caterpillar ECF-1A, ECF-2, ECF-3; Cummins
CES 20081; DDC 93K218; Deutz DQC
III-05; MACK EO-O Premium Plus; Ford
WSS-M2C171-E; MAN 3275; MB Approval
228.31; MTU Category 2; Renault Trucks
RLD-3; Volvo VDS-4
http://www-static.shell.com/static/can-en/downloads/products_services/lubrica...So, here go the torpedoesShell Rotella T is not the same as Shell Rotella T6. It seems to me that all Rotellers seem to think that us newbies that are looking for answers know that fact. Most don’t. Please refrain from calling the product Rotella T. Please call it Rotella T6. It’s a wonderful oil for the Savage. But when it comes to these bikes, I think JOG’s ninty thousand mile Walmart worker’s bike says it all and his thinking on the subject show something. Any oil is better than no oil, and if you change it often like my first sentence in my first post -- it will last a long time. Buying expensive T6 and extending the drain interval is a crap shoot. Contamination is our biggest adversary to long life. Change oil often and use what the manufacture recommends, 10w40 motorcycle oil.
Egad, Oldfeller posted a picture of the wrong product propagating the ignorance of the fine product T6.