4,000 Mile oil change

How many of you change oil at 4,000 miles using sny oil?

ironfish said:

How many of you change oil at 4,000 miles using sny oil?

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Never. I either use olive oil at 3,999 miles (never do it at 4,000) or syn oil (much better than "sny" oil) at some other interval. If I miss 4,000 I use Wesson.

I'll take your used oil

Oh Boy!! A new oil thread. Change when you like with what you like. I like Dino oil and cheap filters. YMMV

When I was running full synth oil in my ST1100, I would leave it in there 6-8K miles between changes. My commute is modest so this would mean I would go about a year between oil changes. is that considered "severe" use? I don't know... probably not. Anyway, on my '05 FJR I've got Castrol semi-synth 10w-40 MC oil there and I'll let it go at least 5K miles. At $8.50/qt it was a little easier to swallow than the $12/qt for the full synth. It doesn't really matter... use a good oil and change it once in a while and you're good to go.

Mr. BR

For everything I own, I do oil changes every 5K. That makes it easy to know when it's due.

As for the brand and weight, there are about 100,000 threads that you can reference on the subject. I suggest you read them all. You will then have an appreciation why folks here groan when they see another oil thread.

Road_Runner said:

For everything I own, I do oil changes every 5K. That makes it easy to know when it's due.

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This ^^^

I have also converted the FJR maintenance schedule to have each maintenance occur "on the 5's". Makes remembering what is due very easy. There is a copy of my 5K all inclusive maintenance checklist available for download by clicking the little NERD icon in my signature line

I change the oil every 3000 miles and the oil filter every 6000 miles from the 2004 when i bought brand new my fjr.

Use Valvoline Durablend 4T 20W-50 Semi Sythetique.

4000 miles??? OMG!! That is engine abuse. I suggest you change it every 250 miles with the most expensive oil you can find. Just to be sure.

Road_Runner said:

For everything I own, I do oil changes every 5K. That makes it easy to know when it's due.
As for the brand and weight, there are about 100,000 threads that you can reference on the subject. I suggest you read them all. You will then have an appreciation why folks here groan when they see another oil thread.

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^THIS^ too

Maintenance? what's that?

Just ride,

And it wasn't even Friday......

I'm not going to bash you as you (the OP) are brand new to the forum. There are multiple threads and posts on this here. The search within the site is not all that great, but an outside SE search may be the better answer.

And... don't let the natives scare you, they're really a great bunch here. Stop in often, we need new peeps and views (just beware, oil threads are kind of old-hat-sensitive).

Cheers and welcome to the Forum!

-KJ

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