Oil question, thoughts???

SMCT

SMCT

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I think I'm going to put new bushings and just install new shafts this summer on my k9. Hopefully quite it down some. Shafts are cheap only about $35 for the set of 4 rather just replace them along with bushings to ensure proper tolerance.
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If you have something that is working and you visually can see that it hasn't been a problem, then don't fuck with it, because chances are, is that the new replacement will be worse. In today's day and age, the materials you get are usually worse then the materials you had, so just be careful.
 
Th3InfamousI

Th3InfamousI

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SMCT said:
If you have something that is working and you visually can see that it hasn't been a problem, then don't fuck with it, because chances are, is that the new replacement will be worse. In today's day and age, the materials you get are usually worse then the materials you had, so just be careful.
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Used to subscribe to if it ain't broke don't fix. But everything has been breaking. Lol

The shafts are S&S OE parts they are the same Im sure.

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chopperowner2478

chopperowner2478

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SMCT said:
It's not alarming that many people use this oil, and many people tend to gravitate to the companies that happen to have the best marketing as well as the easiest accessible products. Hell, you can walk into any walmart and buy yourself some. You can walk into any super market and get yourself some as well. I've been at it, and in the engine building business for quite some time, so I get first hand experience to look into these engines season after season and year after year. We study failures very closely. Years ago I was a huge fan of Mobil synthetics and that was through the 80's, and as the times changed, so did the Mobil product, and in my opinion, not for the better. I've witnessed just an excessive amount of tapet failures on Mobile oil and I have gone away from that mass marketed and mass produced product. My personal choice for an easy to get oil, is Valvoline VR1 Racing non synthetic. the VV 205 is a 10-30 and the VV211 is the 20-50. We use this in our engine shop and it does have 1100 ppm (Parts per million) of phosphorous and 1100 parts per million of zinc. It's the phos content that really protects that metal to metal interaction in the engine. The mobile along with many other "shelf oils" have less than the limit of 700. 700 is the legal limitation for zinc and phos content to be sold on a shelf. Some other oils that are really good in my opinion are Synergyn, Shaffer, Joe Gibbs and Amsoil. Some of the oils I mentioned have close to, if not over 2000 PPM of zinc and phos.

I have Valvoline VR1 Racing 20-50 in my 117 S&S engine.
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SMCT said:
It's not alarming that many people use this oil, and many people tend to gravitate to the companies that happen to have the best marketing as well as the easiest accessible products. Hell, you can walk into any walmart and buy yourself some. You can walk into any super market and get yourself some as well. I've been at it, and in the engine building business for quite some time, so I get first hand experience to look into these engines season after season and year after year. We study failures very closely. Years ago I was a huge fan of Mobil synthetics and that was through the 80's, and as the times changed, so did the Mobil product, and in my opinion, not for the better. I've witnessed just an excessive amount of tapet failures on Mobile oil and I have gone away from that mass marketed and mass produced product. My personal choice for an easy to get oil, is Valvoline VR1 Racing non synthetic. the VV 205 is a 10-30 and the VV211 is the 20-50. We use this in our engine shop and it does have 1100 ppm (Parts per million) of phosphorous and 1100 parts per million of zinc. It's the phos content that really protects that metal to metal interaction in the engine. The mobile along with many other "shelf oils" have less than the limit of 700. 700 is the legal limitation for zinc and phos content to be sold on a shelf. Some other oils that are really good in my opinion are Synergyn, Shaffer, Joe Gibbs and Amsoil. Some of the oils I mentioned have close to, if not over 2000 PPM of zinc and phos.

I have Valvoline VR1 Racing 20-50 in my 117 S&S engine.
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VR1 WAY TO ROLL MOBILE DON'T CARE ANYMORE... 20/50 OR 50 OR 60 WEIGHT STRAIGHT FOR HOT AREA NO BS
 
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