Thursday, January 7, 2010

Can you put Lucas oil treatment into a motorcycle?

Call lucas... I don't know on the honda... on Harleys we run Lucas oil and treatment in evo's and lucas syn w/ their new full synthetic additive in twin cams (after 1000 miles with non syn.) we are hi performance guys dyno-ing and pulling motors appart constantly... Lucas gives us more hp less wear and up to 20 degrees cooler (syn).Can you put Lucas oil treatment into a motorcycle?
Yeah, but why would you want to?l





I'm not familiar with Lucal oil treatment in particular, but there are two kinds of oil treatment: 1. ';Motor honey'; that thickens the oil, and 2. Detergent and viscosity improvers.





You don't want motor honey. Pistons and cylinders are fed by oil being slung off the con rods as they flop around in your engine. Thick oil doesn't sling as well as oil right out of the can. Besides, your engine's tolerances were designed to run using a particular grade oil. Thicker oil will starve close tolerance parts for lubrication and your engine's performance and longevity will be shortened.





Detergent and viscosity indexers aren't necessary if you started with a good quality oil. If you started with a crappy oil, these won't make it lubricate better, they just improve it's temperature range and stabilize it a bit.





My engine has over a quarter million miles on it right now and only started burning a little oil at startup. The oil level doesn't change much in its 2,000 mile service interval.Can you put Lucas oil treatment into a motorcycle?
Sure can. And you'll notice the diff. almost immediately !
You can it dont know what kind of engine its going in but thats whats it is made for


After break in';because it never will'; I rather use a teflon additive adds 60% to engine life

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