switch from synthetic back to regular oil

[jim oneill]

Took my 08 in for service and the staff mistakenly changed my oil and filter. I have run the bike on Rotell synthetic since I bought it new 3 years ago. They changed it using yamaha oil. Is this gonna cause any problems? ie: replacing synthetic with regular oil???

 

[fjr183]

No!!

 

[LAF]

Not a bit.

 

[madmike2]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Whut them guys sed!

 

[iboldguy]

+1 for NO, as long as you change it out per recommended schedule. If you extend oil changes synthetic is better.

 

[doug44]

Uh not to turn this into another oil thread ......... but I guess this is what it is sorta. I have done this myself on several different bikes and I think the 15w40 dino Shell oil seems like a better fit for my moto's. IMHO the 5w40 is a little lite and actually my foot thinks the 15w40 shifts better. Last year I rode my GL1800 out to CA and back, 6200 miles in 12 days in extreme heat. There were a couple of days while riding in the mountains in CA. where I use a lot of engine braking instead of my brakes and it was the only time in 50K miles the bike actually used any oil and this trip was down almost 1/2 quart. I checked it before leaving CA and it seemed just a little low but checking it the next morning after arriving home found it this low. It points to me to the fact that the combo of high heat and engine braking needs heaver oil. I also had this happen to me back in 1982 on a CB1000 Honda leaving town running 10w40 and when hitting high heat I could actually smell the bike burning oil. Checking it after a couple of days that trip I found it down quite a bit. That evening I bought 20w50 Castrol and changed out the oil, filter and that stopped the oil usage for the entire trip. Of course the CB1000 was air cooled BTW a really neat bike with the dual range tranny.

 

[charismaticmegafauna]

Any engine that consumes oil will usually consume less of a higher viscosity oil.

FJRs are not normally oil-burners.

 

[FJRBluesman]

No problems, no worries. OH, just make sure it's extra virgin dino oil.

 

[norcal1]

No problems, no worries. OH, just make sure it's extra virgin dino oil.

Does that mean dinosaurs that hadn't had ***? How can we tell?

 

[madmike2]

No problems, no worries. OH, just make sure it's extra virgin dino oil.

Does that mean dinosaurs that hadn't had ***? How can we tell?

Even if they could tell you....would you believe them?

 

[user 6393]

not if they were a guy dinosaur....nevah!

"Honest honey, I didn't even look twice at that hadrosaur"

h34r:

 

[phroenips]

Be sure to stay away from those oils with high trans fats!

 

[madmike2]

not if they were a guy dinosaur....nevah!

"Honest honey, I didn't even look twice at that hadrosaur"

h34r:

uh...er...uhm...I could answer but I won't!

Mebbee we have "Creepy Dino" oil?

 

[UHOH]

have done it on a couple bikes and one car.

car, can't tell.

bikes ... it takes about 5 miles for the tranny to get over its notchiness transition. then A-OK.

 

[jhedges]

Uh not to turn this into another oil thread ......... but I guess this is what it is sorta. I have done this myself on several different bikes and I think the 15w40 dino Shell oil seems like a better fit for my moto's. IMHO the 5w40 is a little lite and actually my foot thinks the 15w40 shifts better. Last year I rode my GL1800 out to CA and back, 6200 miles in 12 days in extreme heat. There were a couple of days while riding in the mountains in CA. where I use a lot of engine braking instead of my brakes and it was the only time in 50K miles the bike actually used any oil and this trip was down almost 1/2 quart. I checked it before leaving CA and it seemed just a little low but checking it the next morning after arriving home found it this low. It points to me to the fact that the combo of high heat and engine braking needs heaver oil. I also had this happen to me back in 1982 on a CB1000 Honda leaving town running 10w40 and when hitting high heat I could actually smell the bike burning oil. Checking it after a couple of days that trip I found it down quite a bit. That evening I bought 20w50 Castrol and changed out the oil, filter and that stopped the oil usage for the entire trip. Of course the CB1000 was air cooled BTW a really neat bike with the dual range tranny.

Good Info! Doug

 

[timk]

I think Yamalube is semi syn, aint it??????

 

[FargoFeej]

If the top flaps on the box the oil bottles came in opened easily then at least then it wasn't dino oil from a Masturdon.

 

[squeezer]

Took my 08 in for service and the staff mistakenly changed my oil and filter. I have run the bike on Rotell synthetic since I bought it new 3 years ago. They changed it using yamaha oil. Is this gonna cause any problems? ie: replacing synthetic with regular oil???

Congrats, Jim, on inventing synthetic blend.

And on this score, we have finally achieved FJR rider consensus. It's a nonissue.

I might, however, be a little torqued if they charged me for something I didn't ask them to do and that didn't need to be done.