Jeriatric
Thinks out loud
Here's my experience. By complete accident but, my fault. I use T6 in my FJR. I always carry oil for it, and the Spyder. For space saving reasons I keep it in large squeezable, well sealing plastic mustard bottles. One for the FJR, and one for the Spyder(T6 in one & Amsoil in the other). So, we had been doing some housekeeping on both bikes(everything including the mustard bottles were stacked on a table) in a moment of brain freeze, I grabbed the wrong mustard bottle and emptied its contents into the Spyder. Very soon thereafter, the SE5 clutch started slipping. Damn me!
Well, I did some research and found that Lamont had had a similar problem with a 998(save he intentionally added new oil - that was NOT the recommended API class) and his clutch slipped too.
Per his post comments(still searchable here) he soon drained and replaced that oil with the recommended API for the 998. He said, after lots of miles and several oil changes(if I remember - around 25K later - it stopped slipping). Well, that didn't happen for me, even tho I had put far less oil in mine. I ended up replacing the clutch pack. Bye Bye $1000.00.
The choice is yours.
The mistake.........was mine:roflblack:
EDIT: Lamonts Post........... https://www.spyderlovers.com/forums...l-Rotella-synthetic&highlight=slipping+clutch
See his post #1 & #24.
Now ... stop trolling me over oil for the 998's. I'm done with it! < In NO way was THIS directed towards @Eckhard
