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Crazy Manx Man
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PostPosted: 21:30 - 02 Feb 2003    Post subject: WTF....My Cityfly?!?! Reply with quote

Crap!....I checked my engine oil this afternoon and found it was low on oil...Ok up to here so I though it was an opportunity to fill it up with Castrol R4 Fully Synth stuff for superbikes Very Happy.......well I bought a litre of the stuff and it drunk the whole lot!!!!!! like wtf? How close was the engine to seizure? fecking hell! Shocked keep your oil checked folks even if the dealer was supposed to do it a few weeks back, they must of forgotten... Confused Mad
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Phoenix
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PostPosted: 22:16 - 02 Feb 2003    Post subject: Reply with quote

A litre? That's probably the entire capacity of your gearbox. U filled it up to the marker right? not just until it came to the top and you checked the newly filled level with the bike upright and NOT on the sidestand?

Also you should not really mix oils I think (semi-synth with fully synth), coz i doubt it was running on fully synth before.
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Crazy Manx Man
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PostPosted: 22:22 - 02 Feb 2003    Post subject: Reply with quote

yep yep yep all as you said!...i previously filled it up with fully synth so i don't think it's any worry, but that was shell's oil...that's the only difference betweent he two
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G
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PostPosted: 22:25 - 02 Feb 2003    Post subject: Reply with quote

I very much doubt the cityfly would benifit from fully synth.
On the Ninja's (6 and 9 anyway) it's not reccomended to use fully synth becuse it can cause clutch slip. The person who was racing my zx9 used GPS semi, which is what I allways use in the 6 as well.
Not that the cityfly's that likley to get clutch slip Very Happy
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Robby
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PostPosted: 00:07 - 03 Feb 2003    Post subject: Reply with quote

i use semi. i doubt fully would do that much for my bike, and my local dealer sells big bottles of semi, but no fully.

but yeh, you should really check your oil weekly, and if you always rev a smaller capacity 4 stroke you can expect it to drink a bit - ask goosey.
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