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Oil – modern or classic?

I enjoyed your recent feature about a 1971 Triumph 650 and somewhere along the line you mention it has done 70,000 miles. Don’t these engines need to be stripped from time to time to clean the sludge traps – otherwise problems arise? With regular oil

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