Snowmobile oil?

[Ruegs23]

I bought my first sled last winter and got a thing of polaris oil with it. I have a 98 indy 500. Is it necessary to buy the polaris oil, or can I go to mills and get their synthetic oil? I am a college student and I could save 20 bucks buy not buying polaris oil. What is the opinion out there??

[Gissert]

The fleet farm oil may be okay, but look into the Phillips Injex oil. Many racers run this stuff, and is is less expensive that the Polaris brand.

I have 4000 miles on an XC 700 and 6000 miles on an XCR 600 that have had a steady diet of Injex with no motor troubles.

[Ruegs23]

Gissert
Who would carry this oil? A snowmobile dealer or can I go to a mills fleet to find this?

[Gissert]

Fleet may carry it. I have seen it at a lot of regular service stations. It is made by Phillips, and is in a black container with purple writing.

[Guest]

Amsoil has a great synthetic injector oil, and if you buy from an individual amsoil dealer instead of your snowmobile dealer or other store you should get a reasonable price

[Dr. Bob]

How do you switch from one brand to another?

Do you have to drain and wash out the oil from your sled before you put in a new oil?

I thought I heard here last year that not all oils are compatible.

I'd love to find a decent oil that is not $20.00 a gallon.

[Iron Cowboy]

You absolutely do not need a brand name oil.
I just had my sled tuned and cluthched by a performance shop that has two world records
in drag raceing. I asked him if a fully synthetic oil would be better for the life of my sled and he said no. He showed me three different customers machines that were one season old, one cat and two polaris, that were siezed up. He said they were all running amsoil and as far as he can figuire there is not enough of a film left coating the metal parts. He said the oil works great if you never shut the machine off, but with frequent stops starting up again is like running them dry untill the oil gets back up in the top again. He said the conventionall oils are just fine and basically all of them ( except ski-doo, he said they have something different in them and didnt know exactly what) are all the same, and come out of the same refinary, they just put different dyes in them. Gissert is exactly right,he said he runs Phillips injex and that the fleet farm arctic blue at $9.99 a gallon is just as good as anything else.

[Guest]

I have had lots of snow machines ...and I never bought the brand name oil for the sled... The Oil I used last and use in my outboard motor is Phillips Injex Oil...I usually found it at the races and several 66 c-stores carried it also.... some people say never to switch brands of Oil....put some logic into this...How many Oil manufactures are there??? Not that many... anyway when I needed to switch oil in the tank I just ran it down far enough and added the new oil...my last sled a 96 ZRT 600 that had about 6000 hard miles on had a steady diet of Injex and other kinds because I forgot to to carry oil along when having long trips....she ran strong So just use some common sense and you'll be fine......Good Luck and happy trails

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