Oil change - that old chestnut again

Vovasik said:

why not use car oils? I've been using the original MB with a tolerance of 229.5 in both car and motorcycle for a very long time. I'm fine!

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Timbo said:

I am now but didn’t know that, it’s in now so I’ll have to try it but thanks

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DodahMan said:

Seems odd that so many of these rockets have had transmission issues yet there is an obsession and manufacturer demand for synthetic. Could it be that synthetic oil is NOT allowing a good break in?

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warp9.9 said:

I've been paying the same 16 bucks a quart. Only been able to ride 2 miles and buy it off the shelf with a 10% military discount. I see amazon has a great case price at 140 a case. Heck thats about 11.67 a quart. If when I get back to Virginia I'm going to see if cycle gear wants to match the price or do they want me to buy elsewhere oh and if they had the 300v15W50 or the 7100 on the shelf I'd be using it. But alas I am forced to buy american made

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Bob R said:

When you put in the new oil don't put it all in. Put in about 5L, stand it up, start it for a few seconds and then add the rest of the oil. If you use a slightly longer filter (here in US a Mobil 1 M110 is a little longer vs the M108) you can put a little more oil into the beast. I run Mobil 1 full synthetic and it works just fine. IIRC the semi synthetic is used at the initial fill and then changed out at the first service to full synthetic, but I could be wrong.

Look for any posts by member idk and he will have a link to the service manual and other goodies.

@idk

bob

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barbagris said:

Nope. R3 transmissions have a couple of identified weak bits. It is also coming up for being a 20 year old design.

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Fingers said:

You need part of another quart.

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Timbo said:

Hey all,

Buying a write off I didn't get any paperwork like a manual with the bike, done a search on here and found different answers, but what's the right quantity of oil when refilling?

Seen posts in quarts which mean nowt to me over here

Is 5.5 litres correct? I don't even know what a quart is!! But google tells me 5.5 quarts is 5.2 litres, not 5.5

And whats the word on synthetic versus semi-synthetic?

Triumph tell me it would have been fully synthetic at new and being 5 years old and having only done 962 miles when I bought it, if it HAD ever been serviced it would have been 1st Triumph service, a must for the UK warranty, so would be synthetic.

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