i cant be bothered

[fowler]

will car engine oil go in a bike engine without causeing any damage
i know in is not the best chioce but i dont have any other option currently
so will it work as a replacement

 

[Kaptain Krunch]

not a good idea to use anything other than recommended by manufacturer. What is the bike engine and what kind of "car" oil do you have? 10-30? 5-30?

 

[fowler]

im bying usual castrol oil from a bp fuel station and its going into a 1982 honda cm250

 

[Kaptain Krunch]

right but what kind of oil is it? 10-30? 5-30? 10-40? check what the cm250 calls for. My kz400 calls for 10-40 which is fairly common.

 

[fowler]

im not good at the oil selection i just call it engine oil but i over heard my dad ordering some 10-40 for the farm so that is what it will be

u surgest i search the internet to find the right type

 

[bajagokart]

i know in our quad we use 10-40 so kaptain is probably right as usual

 

[Angus]

No, you need proper motorbike oil. Bikes use the same oil for the engine and the gearbox, and as such have different requirements.

 

[modelengineer]

Car oil is fine as long as you don't get one with "friction modifiers". I'm running car oil in my GS-500f buggy which has been thrashed hard, at over 10,000rpm at times, for a good while now and has no issues.

If you get an oil with friction modifiers then you will have a slipping clutch which annoying to fix as the oil sticks to the plates.

 

[fowler]

ill proberly get the thinnest oil i can find as it has not been run for a while

 

[brendonv]

Probably best to use the recommended oil man. Dont wanna screw it up.

 

[fowler]

i dont have the time or money now and it is a flogged engine from 1982 and i got it from the 2 wheel wreakers in balcatta
(this is the one sideways said was a hunk of **** so ill use it for two years then get a better one
later)
you do have a point though and i will get proper oil at some stage
but for now...

 

[sideways]

i dont have the time or money now and it is a flogged engine from 1982 and i got it from the 2 wheel wreakers in balcatta
(this is the one sideways said was a hunk of **** so ill use it for two years then get a better one
later)
you do have a point though and i will get proper oil at some stage
but for now...

I think the one I looked at was a CB250 engine lol. Polish your engine up, it'l look good, it's a Honda so it'l go for ever .

Hayden

 

[fowler]

yer thats mine payed 600 for it
gunner fit it to the kart in the next 2 weeks
it isnt in a too baad state but this kart im making now is just to get my knowlege up and give me somthing to do while im broke

in two years time ill either fit a bigger engine or build a proper sand dune buggy

 

[EagleTalons]

Why not just call the store that you are buying the wrong oil at and have them get you the right oil. So when you walk in the door its sitting right there.

 

[modelengineer]

$600? For a flogged out engine...

 

[sideways]

$600? For a flogged out engine...

Yeah, that place rips you off big time.

I went in there a year or 2 ago asking about engines, they showed me their "cheapest" 250, it was an ancient Honda with scratched up cases and aluminium oxide every where, it had obviously been leaking oil at some stage too. I asked how much, they said $650, I laughed and walked out...

I'd be willing to bet they didn't pay even half that for the whole bike...

And fowler thinks he has that engine I looked at so yeah. It's probably a different one though, god knows though, it could be the same.

Fowler, did they sell it to you with no oil in it?

Thanks

Hayden

 

[fowler]

it has oil in it (i hope) because it weighs 7 tonne
but i dont know if it is the same one because although there is a fair bit of corosion on the outer case (nothing a wire brush wont fix) there are few scratchs and it is fairly clean

oh yer and can anyone find what type of oil goes in it i tryed google but the stupid boarding house blocked the site i want and my proxys wont work

 

[fowler]

ok no answer

ill just get 10-40 from the BP fuel station

 

[fowler]

i got

 

[modelengineer]

Magnatec definitely has friction modifiers, it's one of it's key selling points.

DON'T PUT IT IN THE ENGINE! YOU WILL HAVE A MASSIVE PROBLEM WITH CLUTCH SLIPPING!

Did you even read my first post? lol