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Oil change, spark plugs, adjust valves for the last 50K.
Personally, I would not mess with anything unless there is an obvious problem.
Back when unleaded gas was introduced everyone was saying replace valves and seats or the engine would die.
Mine running unleaded gas for 40K has the same power and compression it did in the 1970s.
If you do replace the slingers, make sure the mechanic is a good as the factory experts. It would appear that most here would disagree, but it is not like these motorcycles are ridden 10 thousand miles a year, so the odds are well in favor of never having a slinger related problem.
Don
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Definitely using magnets can help with the metallic stuff, but not all of the stuff is metallic. IMO it's a small price to pay for a bit of piece of mind...it couldn't hurt...plus you get fresh oil a bit more often!
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Good or Bad it Gets Valvoline VR1 40w.
Thinking back to the first years when I put on thousands of miles a year, I would top it off as necessary, and change when convenient. But since the mid 1980 it's been about every 1K.
Don
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Given that I pay about USD 40 for 5 litres of straight 30 in UK and that we (some of us) are trying to use less oil and oil products, I'm not keen to throw it away more often than necessary.
Charlie.