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 Posted: 12-22-2008 05:08 am
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Sylva

 

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 My manual shows that there is over 2 pints difference between the amount of oil used at an oil change and that used for a 'new 'engine.

Drain the oil and then take the cam covers off, these is loads of oil left all over the inside of a 900, so I only bother to change the oil in the cooler at rebuild. But then I change the oil every 500 KM as my engine it is only used on the track.

As for the recomendation to change oil every 10K miles, I'd say this is a wast of of an engine not that more frequent changes are awaste of oil, everything I've read, and everything I've been told is that the 10,000 mile change is a car company figure that they require to make annual services a reality, and is not driven or supported by oil company engineers.

Kelvin