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I have been riding/racing for 13 yrs and been on 4-strokes for 9 yrs an have always ran rotella for my oils, and have never had problems with it in Hondas or kawis. I made a change this yr and went and bought me a new 2014 yz 250 2stroke, my question is has anyone ran rotella in there 2stroke? And would it hurt it if I did? And please no bs comments thanks
The Shop
If you ever go to a Pro MX or SX event... check out how many mechanics are pouring Rotella into those bikes.
Buy it and run it... you will thank yourself later. Your wallet will as well.
tried them all, none worked that good except maybe The Honda one in the Red bottle (looks & feels like atf)
NOW where can I find a 5 gal container of type F --- ATF?
Pit Row
Just because you spend development money on a bike doesn't mean you are going to make it any better. Case in point, 2010 yz450f(arguable I know). It's pretty hard to objectively measure how good a dirtbike is anyway.
A practice day for me is typically 1.5-2.5 hours of track time depending on whether its a weekday (6p-10p) or a weekend where it is less formal and I can go out at will and ride till I'm beat (sometimes up to 4-5hrs of on track time). Most of my oil tests were done at 5 hrs on my meter which is when I typically change my oil because I am anal retentive and only have one bike so I don't want to take any chances but I sent tests in that were left in for 15 hrs (just for testing purposes) and at 15 hrs I was at about 50% every time with Rotella. Never went past 5 hours with any other brands.
My tests at 5 hours showed between 10-12% with Rotella, 19% with Yamalube, 22% with Lucas oil synthetic, 22% with Motorex power synthetic, 28% with Lucas Semi synthetic (also experienced clutch slip), the worst was the Suzuki oil... it came back with 37% break down at 5 hrs.
All tests were done with my RMZ450 so I think it is safe to say that all of them will hold up to the abuse of your typical track rider, but I prefer the one that stands up the best and is also the cheapest. The Rotella also had the least amount of contaminants from the tranny/clutch.
Also says something that Rekluse recommends it that you should run it with their clutches.
FWIW: all tests were done by Blackstone Labs... pure MX use.
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