09-09-2013, 12:29 AM
(09-08-2013, 11:55 PM)Ack-CB11_imp Wrote: Even with my beloved Redline 10w40 the knock that CIP57 started this thread with happened to me. Saturday morning 48 degrees, bike starts up and sounds fine, it idles while I helmet up. I head down my bumpy dirt road to a stop sign, takes about a minute like always and I hear a real knock and only at idle, almost had my 2nd coronary. Rode 1/4 mile to next stop, still knocking at idle. Next stop was over a mile further and oil must have thinned out from warming up a little and the knocking was gone. Warmed bike up and switched to 10w30 Redline.
Sunday morning was 50 degrees, did same routine with 10w30 knock didn't happen.
CIP57 also made a great piont at watching the sight glass for some flow results.
The 10w40 all warmed up would go to full in about 16-18 seconds, the 10w30 12 seconds.
The bars do buzz more with the 30 but it's better than a cold knock.
When Honda says hotter climates for 10w40 they must not mean Nantucket.
This is an INFO POST and has nothing to do with what oil you should use.
Glad you heard it so quickly, don't want anything happening to that Gem
