Kevhunts said:
Not trying to start a debate or criticize your choices but, just out of curiosity, what brand, weight, and frequency do you change your engine oil? :
You can ask
, but I don't think it has much to do with tensioner issues. As far as I've seen, everyone that has has failures (with the early tensioner) has been in the 60-80,000 mile range. Maybe oils and change intervals effect that a little bit, but the fact is it will fail at higher mileage no matter what your routine.
I try to run 10-40 semi-synth motorcycle oil most of the time, prefer Motul or Yamalube if I have a choice. There are times when I have to use what I can get - like in Iran where motorcycle-specific oils are impossible to find. Oil changes are dictated by wnen I've used my spare half-liter of oil. I buy 4 litres for an oil change, and with the leftovers top up when oil level is at the low mark, roughly 2000-2500 miles. When it needs topping up the second time, I change. That could be as little as 3500 miles if I've been doing a lot of higher-speed riding, or as much as 5000 miles. Oil useage has changed very little since new, and I'm at 138,000 miles now.