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LittleBill
Explorer
Feb 18, 2016

Synthetic oil worth it? 18k hour yamaha generator says no.

I know this is going to start a war, figured I post it anyway link is below for a EF2000iS using Pennzoil Conventional 10W40 Motor Oil that has run 18,000 hours. Actually he has multiples over 10k ...
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qchunter
Explorer
Feb 18, 2016
Good read. Those little Yamaha gennies are nice. But I still prefer synthetic over regular oil.

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