Basically asking so I know whether I need oil with a wet clutch additives. The sevice manual doesn't seem to spell it out, either in the general/specifications section or the 'Clutch' section.
Your bike has a wet clutch set up. Meaning that it sits in a bath of oil, the same oil that is used to lubricate your engine's moving parts. The oil also keeps your clutches cool. No need to go "adding" any wet clutch additives. Just use what is recommended in your user's manual.
I have no idea why a dry clutch set up video was posted? The OP's question didn't ask what a dry clutch set up sounds like. :O
Sounds like they're not as necessary as I'd been led to believe. The last few times I've bought oil the motorcycle oils bragged about having additives that are supposed to help/be necessary for proper wet clutch wear.
It could easily have been crap. I toughtI had read it on both Mobil's synthetic and conventional motorcycle motor oils as well as the fancy Motul stuff I bought.
What the people above are saying is that any oil that meets the requirements in the user manual should work. The manual says: API SE, SF, SG or API SH/SJ w/ JASO MA (not sure what that is), at 10W-40.
At this point I'll probably just get a nice synthetic 10w-40 that meets the above requirements and call it a day.
any 10w40 synthetic oil thats wet clutch safe will do the job. just stay away from auto oil that has the energy saving label stamp on it, that stuff is a wet clutch nightmare.
how do you tell if the oil's 'wet clutch safe'? Are any auto oils ok or no? Mobil 1 Synthetic (pretty good auto oil) is on sale locally and I had been planning on using that. Since its an auto oil I doubt it'll say 'wet clutch safe' on it anywhere, whether it is safe or not.
i chickend out and got the valvoline conventional motorcycle oil. I have a feeling i paid for essentially conventional 10w-40 with a motorcycle on the bottle when i coulda gotten Mobil 1 Synthetic. Guess it doesn't matter since I don't really race and change it every 3-4k.
I think what the OP is referring to is the additives that are already in motorcycle oil. Motorcycle oil has certain things for a motorcycle clutch that car oil does not..
Not doubting you, but do we know what these additives are? Its pretty easy to see how that could be long-entrenched snake oil salesmanship if you knowwhat I'm saying.
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