Bel-ray and Maxima

[Buellstuff]

Out of all the oil threads, I never see anyone that uses Bel-ray or Maxima products that are designed for sportster primaries. Just wondering if anyone has any experience with either of these products and if they improved the clunky shifting?

Maxima V-Twin

Bel-ray V-Twin

 

[Cosworth]

Bel-ray gets brought up quite a bit but ive never used it.

Maxima I have used quite a bit and is a great oil and id consider it right up there with Amsoil

For clunky shifting I can only recommend checking primary and clutch adjustment and a good wet clutch compatible oil.

 

[Buellstuff]

I've heard of people on here using the maxima oils, just never the stuff designed for our primaries. Usually just see people using a gear oil made by them. I have amsoil in there now, probably just because I'm coming off or smoother shifting bikes but it seems like it could be improved more.

 

[Cosworth]

Im running regular old type F automatic transmission fluid in my XB for the last 2k miles and like it pretty well.

 

[Buellstuff]

I've been thinking about doing the same thing, I just can't find any long term effects of that if it is too thin or something along those lines. I used to run it in two stroke Dirtbike transmissions but didn't know if it would screw things up in the buell

 

[Cosworth]

Energy One clutches recommends it for harley/buell transmissions so I imagine its fine.

 

[EricZ]

I use Bel-Ray's 75w GearSaver in my primary

 

[gbalias]

youve been having a lot of clutch problems lately though. lol

 

[Buellstuff]

I feel like most of it is just in my head from riding a bunch of other bikes that shift smooth, along with when I rode another buell it shifted about the same as mine. I just want it to shift smoother haha

Not really a clutch problem though, clutch disengages and engages very smoothly, just shifting is clunky. If it shifted like a jap bike then I'd have no complaints with this bike

 

[EricZ]

Oh, gbalias, you are such a turd

 

[user_deleted]

If it shifted like a jap bike then I'd have no complaints with this bike

with proper adjustments to clutch pack...cable...primary chain....and quality primary fluid they will.
it's all in your shifting technique. 2nd to 3rd will never be "clunk-free" but technique is everything. do it correctly and jap-like buttery smooth shifts every time.

 

[Buellstuff]

Why is 2nd to 3rd worse than the rest?

 

[user_deleted]

^^^^^^^^never figured that one out. i'm on my 10th XB model and they have all consistently shifted nicely. perhaps the 2nd-3rd clunk is attributable to gear spacing or some other ingredient beyond my understanding but that particular shift does seem to be unique in its feel both audibly and in your foot.

 

[Buellstuff]

I noticed the same thing, thats always what scared me most about it. Well I guess I don't really have anything to worry about at this point. It ran great on a 250 mile trip I just took out to school, that 2-3 shift just bothered me because it was different than the rest. Thanks for the info lunaticfringe!

 

[cjanderson_90]

I for one like the clunky-ness of the tranny. Makes me feel like this is a mans bike. Same reason I like to shoot mechanical paintball guns over the electronic ones. I like to feel it working.