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Not to up on the needs of sporties but I would say their sport trans oil myself. You run into a different scenario here with the shared oils in a sporty.
Wish Redline or Amsoil were a bit easier to get but Mobile-1 v-twin/mx4t/75-90g series has worked well for me for several years in Harley's and British twins.
Wonder why not many folks have been using the Bel Ray tranny fluid. I'm about to dump some into my tranny based on some pretty good feed back from several unbiased resources.
ORIGINAL: Taildraggerdave
AND, the 0-ring was shredded and split, and the tech put a bunch of liquid pipe dope on the threads.
I just did my first service on my new Dyna and while working on it I remembered your post about the pipe dope on the drain plug. It looks like engine, trans and primary plugs on my bike all came from the factory with pipe dope on them. Obviously the tech should've replaced the bad o-ring, but maybe the pipe dope was already on there?
What the heck is the o-ring even for if they are going to slather it in pipe dope?!?!?! If the tech indeed added MORE dope without thoroughly cleaning the threads, then that plug may not even go in far enough for the o-ring to seat.
Anyway, just wanted to share my observation. I wonder if it is used as much as a thread locker as a sealer? I don't think there is anything wrong with using it, but you gotta clean that crap out each time and use a reasonable amount.
RE: What TRANS oil do you use?
