10k mile oil changes???

coolrocket said:

Valve check every 20'000 miles Oil change every 10'000 miles and that's from the guys back in Hinckley UK who make them. Oh and by the way the Mechanic I spoke to told me the Valve check service should only take about 4 1/2 hours. A certain Dealer out here quoted me 12 hrs...

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Good to know on the time to complete. Helps give me a judge of character baseline when I go see my local dealer. Thanks!
-MIG

mexican said:

Is that a typo on the manual?? just changed my oil and since i couldn't remember i checked the online manual, also valve checks every 40k miles??? is taht correct?? seems exessive long to me

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Triumph pays folks way smarter than me to study the effects of longer oil change intervals so I have always gone with the 10000 mile reccomendation. Conversely, when I took the 15 in at 20000 miles for the valve check he said that unless it was making noise or hard to start it would be a waste of time and money to do it at that point. It made sense to me so I waited. At about 36000 it started having symptoms so I had him adjust them. The adjustment was indeed needed and after it ran like new. Of course all of this may just mean I am cheap. But I am going to repeat it with the GT.

Warp9.9's left foot must be calibrated in inch-pounds!

wjb said:

Warp9.9's left foot must be calibrated in inch-pounds!

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He has to kick someone in the behind every so often to calibrate it.

Great comments!!