Go with option number "2".

Run it down real low and then add the new stuff.

 

I'm waiting for some Mystik full syn to run down before I put in the Klotz Techniplate that I can hardly wait to run.

I would do #2.

 

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You can go with #2 but you will have to worry about letting it go too low and the pump/tubing would suck air at the end when you're hitting bumps.

Personaly, i would go with option 1...Your engine will not be affected whatsoever...

 

Thanks for the replies.

 

I'm waiting for some Mystik full syn to run down before I put in the Klotz Techniplate that I can hardly wait to run.

I would do #2.

Same oils, same scenario I'm doing this winter.

 

I've always just poured in whatever new oil I plan on using and go. So far, so good.

 

suck out the old stuff

-grover

 

suck out the old stuff

-grover

That's what I did with mine as well. Just suck out as much as you can with a Turkey Bastet or equivalent and then add the oil your going to be using. This way no worries about running out when your out riding.

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That's the safest way, like Grover and 19MXZ98 suggested using a turkey bayster, that way you don't have too worry about it, refill and go

 

Doesn’t really matter

 

suck out the old stuff

-grover

Yup. It really is that simple.

 

Same oils, same scenario I'm doing this winter.

The full-syn Mystik, is cheap and I had been using it for years because it is/was cheap.

I'm going with Klotz as I want a better smelling burnt/unburnt-smell while idling or riding.

I'm also too cheap and lazy to go sucking perfectly good oil out and then to figure out what to do with it after. I might as well use it up though I will have a while to go as I recall, it takes about 350 miles or two and 1/2 tanks of fuel to get through a tank of 2S oil.

 

^^^^ Thats what I would do, and have done. Just ride it and add oil when you get back as you normally would. Don't over analyze it.

 

Why change the oil? Isn't mineral oil recommended for the 550 Carb?

 

It's kinda funny you ask that. Mine came with xps synthetic. I sucked most of it out and filled with xps mineral. I've always broken in engines on mineral, then switched to synthetic after a few hundred miles. Basically I try to run one gallon of mineral thru it, then switch. I run it low, and then fill with new oil.
This 19 is taking a crazy amount of oil in breakin! Like a quart to 40 miles.
So if I were you, I'd use up most of the mineral oil that is in it, then top off with synthetic.

 

Why change the oil? Isn't mineral oil recommended for the 550 Carb?

Both mineral and synthetic are recommended in the owners manual.

 

Its 2018, just dump in the oil. We don't care and neither does your sled. : )

 

Topping it off and mixing the two oils will be ok it will not harm your engine. I've seen it done many times .
What ever people can find at the gas station they will throw in the sled especially a rental then it's the cheapest oil they will buy.

I just have that little doubt and think why look for trouble.If it was my sled I would be cautious and run it down and fill it with the synthetic

 

Your oil pump doesn't know if it's pumping kool aide, coffee, mud, water or oil. My 2 cents....

 

Thanks for all the replies.

Some different opinions.