Gusm91
New member
Looks like you're good to go! Enjoy the feeling and pride of doing it yourself and KNOWING it was done right. Not to mention it saves a boatload of money doing it yourself. I'll guarantee you that a dealer would charge $60+ to do an oil change with sythetic oil and it would be a toss up on whether they used the right oil (aka use dino oil and pocket the extra cash), right amount or stripped bolts. People seem to think that "techs" at dealers are some sort of god and know everything about every bike when the fact is a LOT of them know less than your average DIY'er on here and have to read a book to figure out what they're doing on these bikes just like any of us would. Plus it's not their bike so they could care less if it's done right and it's almost impossible now days to hold them accountable for anything (they always use the "well it was like that when you brought it in here" line) so they do as they please. As you can tell I hate taking anything to a stealership unless I just have to. So many of them are scam artists and crooks now days.
is it ok to use 5w-40 oil even though it is not specified in the owners manual? I see in the owners manual as 10w-40 being the lowest...