LBS is asking $14/litre (Cdn) for Honda brand synthetic oil.......wow! Thats approx $48 for 3 qts oil with taxes in. Also honda brand oil filters are $18 Cdn before txs.. All i've been running is regulat Honda GN4 oil (non-synthetic) with aftermarket oil filters.

Anybody running synthetic oil in their 650 Rincon motors...? Any noticeable improvements?

 

I am going to try AMSOIL in mine.

 

I run Amsoil synthetic 0w-40 in my 05. It shifts much smoother. But man, that is insane the money you have to spend in Canada. I complain about $7.75 for synthetic Amsoil.

 

Synthetic is always better but as long as you use oil thats JASO MA approved then you will be fine. Just dont use regular automotive oil.

 

Honda doesn't have a full synthetic just for the Rincon, do they????

I presume you are refering to Honda's HP4, which is only semi synthetic, not full synthetic. This is no doubt done to keep the price manageable. It's pretty good stuff though, because on of the dirt bike magazines ran an 450X for 200 hours on it and a little scuffing on the piston is all the obvious wear that there was.

Rincons can run hot when pushed hard, like mudding and the like, so it isn't a bad idea to run synthetic........

 

reconranger......guess i'm not sure if the local Honda dealer was referring to Honda full synthetic or "semi-synthetic" HP4.. I only called them and thats what the guy told me on the ph.. I'm going to stop in and look just out of my own curiousity. Normally I either change it myself or take it to the local honda dealer, either way I always use Honda GN4 oil. Anyways I had a small engine shop change the oil just before Christmas as I was working 7 days a week and it was crazy. When I got it home I pulled the dipstick out and thought the oil was a different color then normal after a fresh oil change. I called the small shop and he told me they assumed I just wanted their nomal Castrol as I didn't specify anything else, which I didn't. I plow snow out of my driveway with my Rincon using a 5' Warn plow. It's alot of driveway, and their has been alot of snow! A few weeks back I was plowing, it was after a bad storm, I shut the bike off and noticed it was hot, noisy, overflow was burping radiator fluid. That 650 motor/tranny was hot..! I've never ran into that using Honda oil in the past few winters.

I'll be changing the oil here in a month or so for Spring once the snow melts, minimum i'll be going back to honda GN4, which is $7 cdn/qt, but may switch to synthetic or even semi-synthetic if I can find a quality oil thats less then $14/qt.. I may check prices in Maine as we're only 15 min from there.

Also what about Oil Filters...? Anybody else run aftermarket filters like EMGO....?

 

I use Fram oil filters from walmart.

 

What blend of Amsoil do any of you guys use for winter weather areas like the Northeast, and do you use the same blend come summer...?

Who sells Amsoil....?

 

Well, I can. I just got my preferred customer ID number to buy it at cost.

 

And Rincons don't overheat from mudding. They only overheat if the radiator is clogged with mud and then its iffy. I rode mine for 20 miles with the radiator clogged (you could not see the fins) and the overtemp light only came on at the end.