Synthetic Oil and The Dealer

[G7mag]

 

20-50 Amsoil in my 01 Venture. Love the stuff.

[Bummer]

I have a 2000 venture and it whines terrible. It has synthetic oil. Can't tell you what kind. Is the oil what causes the whine?

 

Adding to the comment on square cut gears:

 

Did you by chance come to the Venture from a twin? Most folks who did tend to run the Venture's V-four a good bit low in it's operating range.

 

Mine has a little bit of gear noise between 2500 and 3000 rpms. Stock, these engines will happily rev over 6k. Add a Dyna3000 and it's over 7k. Mine's currently set to max out at 7250. It'll pull strong to 7, no problem. Aside from first gear, I like to keep the revs up over 3k. Runs like crazy (I was going to say "a scalded dog" but figured that might get me in trouble, so I won't. ) and there's almost no gear noise.

 

Any chance you just need to turn it up?

 

As to oil, I've been using synthetic since about the third oil change. I wound up changing to Yamaha's full synthetic when the local Yamaha shop said they didn't carry the old dyno stuff anymore. Basically they recommended the synthetic.