What engine oil should you use in your motorcycle?
The use of engine oil
Its mainly work 3 way in the engine. Firstly as the lubricant or a slippery equipment inside the engine, secondly, to keep the engine cool and thirdly, remove all the dust and pollution from the inside.
As we know about the engine that it is totally made of so many structural metal object and each of them connected with each other. As like the piston of the engine, it move from up to down with heavy pressure and it makes a friction to the body of the engine. Lubricant helps the whole engine to get rid of from the decay from this sort of friction.
Engines all parts creates heavy heat by its friction meanwhile, in the cylinder where fuel burns also produce a heavy heat and engine oil help to reduce this kind heat of the engine.
Each biker should change their engine oil in every 800-1000 kilometer. Otherwise cannot perform its normal activity.
Types of Engine oil
There are two types of engine oil mainly available in the market, one is minarel and another one is chemical based. Just you have to keep in mind that motorcycles engine oil is totally different from the others. You cannot use the engine oil which used for the engines of Bus or truck. You may ask the ask why so? Engine oil is engine oil then what is the difference between them?
It is better to say about the engine of bike that there are 3 parts of the engine of a bike and those are: Engine clutch system and the gearbox. So, if you use the engine oil of heavy vehicle then this could be heavily harmful for your engine.
Grades of Engine oil
Engine oil grade is declared by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). According to their information, engine oils grade depends on the viscosity and the weather condition of the following country of the rider. The grade could be single or multi. Most often in our country we have to use multi grade engine oil. But it is good to say that each of the motorcycle company have their recommendation about the engine oil and we all should follow that recommendation for the better performance of our bike.
Standard of the engine oil
As the following institution decide the standard of the oil API (American Petroleum Institute), JASO (Japanese Automotive Standards Organization ), ILSAC (The International Lubricant Standardization and Approval Committee), ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) etc.
Popular brand of the engine oil
There are lot of imported popular brand in our country and those are: Shell, Mobil, Petronas, Fuchs, ENEOS, Caltex, Visco, BP, Total, Cepsa, Valvoline, Lukoi, Motul, Havoline etc.
From where you can purchase
You never should take the engine oil from a unknown person or unauthorized dealer. If you take a look closely then you find by yourself which one is original and which one duplicate. Check out the seal of the company to be sure about the quality.
Precaution
never throw out the pack of the engine oil after use as it is. Make a lick on it then throw it out otherwise some bad people can recycle it with duplicate engine oil and you don't know who will be the customer of that oil. Its may be you again.
At the last
You never should consider engine oil according to its price or quality. Always use the grade that decided the company. Don't use the engine from the unreliable source. The better engine oil you choose or use in your bike the better your bike is going to serve.
Stay safe keep safe.