I set my father up w/ a gallon of Shell RTS at the end of last season. I think that he had the regular Yamalube in it prior to that. So this coming season will be the test for that stuff. I used RTS for many years in my FJR. Not sure if you realise it or not but the Yamaha 4-stroke triple (NOT to ever be confused w/ the real Yamaha triple, the Red Head!) is a corporate hack-job on an FJR engine. So RTS will work just fine. But I really like the GC idea. And I even GC in the FJR for one OCI. Too bad that I never had UOA done on that oil... Anyway, like pretty much any HDEO or 'bike oil,' the Feejer seems to be good w/ whatever I have dosed it with. A buddy of mine ran RTS in his Apex in behind Buchanan - never any issues. Nor should there be!
For what its worth, I just changed out the FJR's sump for a load of Shell T5 RT Semi-syn 10W-30 as that's all that I am gonna run in 5.9 Cummins. Nice to have one oil serve a couple of needs. But I'm getting a bit off topic.
Does CT not have a Canadian-specific T5 that's fully synthetic & 0W-something? Might be interesting. I'm using the semi-syn Yankee product.
Just how much oil is in that dry sump, anyway? Pretty small, yes? I really like the idea of GC for your application & it is a pretty cheap solution.
I found out last week that I can get Redline products at cost here. Guy owns a large parts distributing store & builds gonzo H-D's. He has their Shock Proof gear oils for, like, twelve bucks a quart. Niche market, not widely known locally. Will be using in all my applications hence forward.
John.
