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New Bohemia, VA | I'm changing my oil and putting in the stock elixar of 20w40 Victory and using a Wix filter. Shazam, I'm hoping that it will resolve the precieved clutch slippage for a few more mile. I've run full syn long-enough to discern any real difference. Sorry for starting another oil thread, thusly named, inappropriate behavior. |
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Akron, Ohio | It will be interesting to see what you think of the factory stuff after running the synthetic. Especially after a few miles. |
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San Antonio, TX | Bye kitty...... |
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Rhode Island | Is this like an oil anonymous thread? My name is varyder and I have an oil problem.
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Akron, Ohio | RhodeTrip - 2012-03-09 5:03 PM
Is this like an oil anonymous thread? My name is varyder and I have an oil problem.
Jim
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San Antonio, TX | RhodeTrip - 2012-03-09 4:03 PM
My name is varyder and I have an oil problem.
Jim
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New Bohemia, VA | yes, I need help, will you all be my friend? I took 'er for a spin, and the preception is that it is tighter. It was starting to feel a little 'rounded' on a take off and on a hard roll on at speed. The tach just didn't quit seem to match the movement in my mind. So, if the clutch is close to the end of its life I was hoping the dino of the Vic oil would make it stickier. It seems to be so. But you know what they say "Perception is 9/10th of it all" or something like that...
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| I wish I could help, I've only replaced one clutch and that was a 100k plus wing. It left no doubt that it had to be replaced. |
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Bay of Gigs, WA | I dropped 20 pounds-clutch miraculously healed! |
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Pitt Meadows, BC Canada | OH BOY! YOWIE! Thanks, Chris - I needed this. My Dealer puts something in my VV - I know this because I pay for it - a lot. Whatever it is, I like it, the bike likes it, the dealer likes it. So I see no reason to change whatever it is. Just my $ .02 .... and you 'had me' with the thread title: Inappropriate behavior
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Tucson, AZ | Do not if this is could be another option or not, but I had a problem with my clutch slipping with only 25k miles on the bike. It was so bad I had to have it towed to a dealer. Come to find out that grit had built up around the clutch lever not allowing the lever to release all the way out. After a good cleaning, good as new. After 23 years of riding I had never had anything like that happen before. Just a thought. |
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New Bohemia, VA | donetracey - 2012-03-12 7:07 PM OH BOY! YOWIE! Thanks, Chris - I needed this. My Dealer puts something in my VV - I know this because I pay for it - a lot. Whatever it is, I like it, the bike likes it, the dealer likes it. So I see no reason to change whatever it is. Just my $ .02 .... and you 'had me' with the thread title: Inappropriate behavior
I'm with you Don, so far I'm happy with the mother oil and hope it can extend the life of the clutch. I can't say the dealer is happy because I change my own oil.
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Brighton, TN | Just think how many more miles you could have gotten if you had stuck with the homogeneous, diametrically opposing force of the GREAT OIL |
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New Bohemia, VA | I'm inclined to think that the slippage is precieved more than it is actual. If it is slipping, it is at the very edge of begining to slip. I won't go as far as to say that having used the homegeneous elixar that it would have made a major difference. I'm banking on the stickiness of the dino oil to give me another mile. The moment I know she's really going I'm placing my order. |
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Hartland, , WI | pollolittle - 2012-03-12 7:27 PM
Just think how many more miles you could have gotten if you had stuck with the homogeneous, diametrically opposing force of the GREAT OIL
AND THEN THE FIGHT BROKE OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  |
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ROCHESTER,NY | Ok everyone excuse me for my ignorance,but I thought that after using FULL SYNTHETIC OIL, Going back to REGULAR OIL was a no-no??????? I believe, I was told that the combination of the two would create a nasty,sludge. I have seen this in a Dump Truck, tranny. I saw this very thick sludge, that was in the tranny,and was told it was a result of REG. OIL being used, with FULL SYN. OIL. |
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New Bohemia, VA | Hmm, so what makes semi-synthetic, a blend of Dino and synthetic any different? |
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Central New York | varyder - 2012-03-12 9:32 PM I'm inclined to think that the slippage is precieved more than it is actual. If it is slipping, it is at the very edge of begining to slip. I won't go as far as to say that having used the homegeneous elixar that it would have made a major difference. I'm banking on the stickiness of the dino oil to give me another mile. The moment I know she's really going I'm placing my order. I feel like a dude that has his two favorite teams in the Super Bowl. On one hand I am?rutting for more miles on your Vision. On the other hand, I love my blue jug!? |
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Sand Rock, AL United States | over 125,000 miles on the 99 using only victory oil. Clutch still good. |
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New Bohemia, VA | JT - I learn from application, if I was able to go back, I can't say I would have done it differently, but there are things I would have done different. I guess the real test will begin, you have only used Vic juice, and I have gone around the block with Vic, AMSOIL and Rotella. I'm not sure how many parades you have done, but I've been in a couple. That alone makes it very painful on the clutch, so it makes me question what is the real cause of the ever so slight precieved slippage. I know it bugs the snot out of some people, but for others it helps paint a picture. City verses highway riding plays on the clutch life as well as rider habits. Other than some spells of very slow moving traffic, a few parades, a rider's safety course, most of my riding has been wide-open. How has your riding been? |
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San Antonio, TX | Speaking of inappropriate behavior.......
My father was much harder on drive trains than I will ever be. His most famous string of failures was when he courted my mother. In the late 1940's he went through three transmission failures in a little over two weeks. His future mother-in-law had a brother that owned a transmission shop. On the third repair his future uncle-in-law made dad do the repair work himself.
From December to June of 1979 I drove a 1960 fiberglass body dune buggy kit made from two wrecked VW bugs. Then my dad got me (the youngest and most spoiled) a new car at 16 years old. My older siblings were pissed. Yea, I got a four cylinder, 1980 Chevy Citation hatchback with a manual four speed transmission.
Dad made it clear to me that I would have to put the car on blocks for a month if I burned the clutch up in the first 10,000 miles. I am not sure where he thought I was going to get that kind power from. Years later at 65,000 miles it needed a new clutch. I had to ask Dad, "Do I have to put it on blocks?" He just shook his head and said "no" and we put it on a trailer to get it to the repair shop. At least he did not make me fix it.
Ride Safe
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Lillian, Alabama | glighto11 - 2012-03-13 10:18 AM
On one hand I am?rutting for more miles on your Vision.
Ummmmmmmm, do you have video of that? |
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Sand Rock, AL United States | varyder - 2012-03-13 9:49 AM
JT - I learn from application, if I was able to go back, I can't say I would have done it differently, but there are things I would have done different. I guess the real test will begin, you have only used Vic juice, and I have gone around the block with Vic, AMSOIL and Rotella. I'm not sure how many parades you have done, but I've been in a couple. That alone makes it very painful on the clutch, so it makes me question what is the real cause of the ever so slight precieved slippage. I know it bugs the snot out of some people, but for others it helps paint a picture. City verses highway riding plays on the clutch life as well as rider habits. Other than some spells of very slow moving traffic, a few parades, a rider's safety course, most of my riding has been wide-open. How has your riding been?
Most of mine are easy miles. By that, I mean freeway commute miles. 55 miles a day round trip at at about 80mph. I don't normally go through the gears hard at her mileage. I did occasionally when she was younger  . My recreational miles are mostly interstate miles when it's destination Daytona (which I am leaving tomorrow for) or Sturgis. Throw in some casual mountain riding two up and pulling a trailer for a Helen Georgia trip or two up on the dragon. I try to avoid the congestion of downtown Sturgis. It makes me nervous for her to sit still running very long and feeling the heat build. I will cruise mainstreet Daytona a couple times. I won't put her in a parade at this stage of mileage ( I have never been in a parade on this bike). I have a mileage goal of 200,000+ so I'm trying to be cautious to get there with no real mechanical issues.  I have made a covenant with myself that if I can reach my goal, I will treat myself to a new Vision. I don't know if I can wait that long but I have to wait for now anyway because the finances are not in line with my dreams. |
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