Beat the Heat
Preventative maintenance is the best way to ensure a long life for your V-twin. One of the best preventative measures that can be taken is to make sure your engine oil stays within its specified operating temperatures. Every time oil goes through a heat cycle, a portion of its additives can be burned away. Exceeding the maximum operating temperature of your oil burns off additives at a faster rate and reduces the performance of the oil and its usable life more quickly.
During the summer months, it can be tough making sure that our air-cooled motors stay within their average operating temperature of 220 degrees. One way to ensure that your engine oil lasts as long as it should is to install an oil cooler. One of our riding companions has an ’03 H-D FXSTBI Night Train that gets ridden pretty hard all over Southern California during the weekends and spends a lot of time commuting in traffic during the week. Jagg Oil Coolers has an assortment of oil coolers for Harleys, so we decided to try its Deluxe oil coolers.