[Cliff R]

For sure Oil and Oil Filter threads get all sorts of varied opinions.

Kind of related but a lot of my friends ride Harley Davidson touring bikes, and not just occasionally, they will ride tens of thousands of miles all over the Country to ralley's and such. Most of them are very particular about lubricants for them, and insist on very expensive Harley Davidson full synthetic, and a few of them use Amsoil dedicated HD V-Twin oils, and most also use Lucas stabilizer additives in all three places.

There is one of the group that is a cheap-ars so only uses the lowest price Walmart brand, and no additives whatsoever. He claims it's all "snake oil" and refuses to pay close to $100 for lubricants at service intervals.

Guess what? He had ZERO issues anyplace with his motorcycles, whether it be the engine, primary or transmission. He's went thru three touring bikes (trades them out between 60,000-80,000 miles) since I meet him back in 2003 and never had the first issue once engine, primary or transmission related.

I'm not quite convinced that his mentality is the right thing considering the cost of one of these motorcycles despite the perfect track record. I use dedicated primary oil, full synthetic HD engine oil with Lucas additives and Lucas 80W90 gear oil in the transmission. I also have zero issues anyplace, but my wallet is certainly lighter than my friends after service is completed.

I will also comment on this: "There is sometimes good info found if you can weed through the garbage. It's comical most of the time, but also sad that some very smart people now seldom waste their time posting here".

This problem has become considerably WORSE in recent years, and many very knowledgeable folks that I know REFUSE to be a part of this Forum for those reasons. I'm hanging in there despite finding myself being criticized and belittled by folks with less total direct experience with Pontiac engines as I spent on the crapper last week. For sure it's not much fun to argue with idiots, or to be chastised by folks who are trying to feed their ego's more than anything else.

I come on this (and other) Forum's to help folks out. For sure I don't know everything there is about all these topics, but at this point in my learning curve I certainly know what doesn't work well and how to build and tune one of these engines. I am DIRECTLY involved with some of the fastest Pure Stock and FAST Pontiac powered cars on this planet, and not just with carb stuff. I've done distributors, intakes, camshaft selections, transmissions and torque converters for a number of them as well.

Despite having to take some flack a little too often for my liking, I stick it out. Dave at SD told me years ago to quit wasting my time here, and recently I'm really beginning to understand why he doesn't post here. For now I'll keep putting some time in, but to be perfectly honest it'd really I don't like the way things are going on here and will be spending more time watching my 3 year old grand daughter and throwing sticks for my dogs instead as they are always glad to see me and appreciate my involvement in their lives........FWIW.......Cliff