I do not use synthetic oil but have been carefully reading the discussions about Harley's synthetic. Looking at the Harley parts catalog there seems to be two Screamin Eagel oils. One is Syn 3 blended synthetic. The other SE fully synthetic Syn 3 motor oil has never been discussed. Are we missing some thing here?

 

Has it been raining alot where you live?

 

Harley has only one synthetic oil and it is made especially for The Motor Company by Venezuela's socialist dictator Hugo Chávez of Citgo Petroleum Corporation. It is called SYN3. Unlike true synthetics the base stock is created from petroleum oil by a process of cracking the molecules to resemble that of a true synthetic oil. As I recall there was a court challenge by Mobil over the labeling as synthetic but Hugo won because judges are not molecular scientists.

Hugo is not a friend of our country because we are capitalists and he is a socialist. He has referred to our president as the devil.

I sure hope this rain stops - I need to take a long ride.

 

He referred to our former president as a devil. I think I may have thought the same thing from time to time.

 

Yeah, Hugo loves our current President. He's helping Hugo's economy more than ours right now.

But back to the topic at hand, there are actually two different Screaming Eagle oils now, but it's really just a label change. Originally they came out with Syn3 and labeled it as a full synthetic because they were losing business. Too many customers were putting synthetic oil in their bikes and the MoCo wanted a piece of the action. Well, they branded it as a three hole solution, hence the "SYN3" name but ran into problems. It was really too thin for the tranny and primary and customers stopped using it, plus it was proven to be a blended oil and not a true synthetic.

In response, Harley released their Screaming Eagle 20w50 Synthetic Blended oil which is not "SYN3" since they also came out with Formula+ which is a thicker mineral based oil for the primary and tranny. They no longer recommend using their synthetic blend in all three holes.

 

Both are crap - use other forum member recommendations through search option(s).

 

Harley still recommends syn3 for the trans and primary. It says so right on their web site, and on the bottle. While their oil is nothing special, if their price was half of what it is, I'd use it.,

 

Yes, but that's only until the dealerships sell off the remaining stock of the old Syn3 bottles. My dealerships are already out and now they only stock the newer Screaming Eagle Synthetic Blend 20w50 which does not state that it is recommended for all three holes.

You think Harley is going to take a loss on recalling all those bottles of oil just to change the label?

 

Just go to AZ (autozone) and get some mobil 20/50 v-twin for $7.49 and Qt, on sale till end of may and be smilin down the road. have a nice ride...)

 

read through these post.. and U learn some more..

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/oil-a...your-bike.html

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/oil-a...ur-choice.html

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/oil-a...o-you-use.html

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/oil-a...-any-good.html

After U read these post U'll see what all of us use...