The Yamalube Story

When Yamaha started making engines, the engineers followed the common practice recommending “off-the-shelf” oils. While these conventional oils could be purchased anywhere, experience began showing that they didn’t always offer the level of protection against wear and tear the customer paid for. Unfortunately, that sometimes resulted in significantly shorter engine life. It became clear that our customers needed and deserved an exceptional oil product. This same engineering team began searching for lubricants which met Yamaha’s high standards. They insisted on the finest ingredients in presice formulations that would give dependable protection and enable the engine to deliver the high performance it was designed to give. This search eventually led to the development of our own premium oils – Yamalube.

What is Oil?
Oil is a blend of different ingredients. The right blend, or formulation will produce certain desirable characteristics. Which characteristics are desirable is determined by the application for the oil.

Whatever the application, however, all engine lubricants have certain primary ingredients:

• Base Oil provides the lubricating properties of oil.
• Additives enhance the base oil’s performance characteristics or provide additional properties, such as cleaning away deposits from composition chambers and piston ring lands.
• Solvent is used in 2-cycle oil formulas to promote mixing of the oil with the gasoline.

What is Yamalube?
Each Yamalube oil is made from base oils, additives, and solvents in combinations specific for the application. for example, the additive package for Yamalube 2-M outboard oil is very different from our Yamalube 2-R for motocross motorcycles, even though both are liquid-cooled 2-stroke engines. These two engine types have different stress loads, with the outboard often operating for extended periods under heavy load while the motocross engine is subjected to frequent bursts of throttle under extreme conditions.

Consequently, the oils developed for these engines have different lubrication formulas.

The Yamalube Advantage
Yamalube is simply the finest oil you can buy for your Yamaha. Each oil is designed, formulated, and developed by the same engineering team that designed the engine. No one else knows Yamaha engines as well as we do. Yamalube uses the best available oil technology in all of its oil formulations. We choose the finest ingredients to put in our oils, and match our oils to the need of your engine.

Yamalube is extensively tested in the field and laboratory, so you can be confident you’re getting a quality lubricant every time you choose Yamalube for your Yamaha. It’s one way we can help ensure your Yamaha delivers years of trouble-free performance.

The Yamalube Future
Many of the Yamalube product you see in this brochure were not available just a few years ago. That’s because our goal is to provide the perfect oil for your Yamalube now and in the future. The Yamalube you buy today is formulated to deliver the lubrication required today. That is particularly important in an age where fuels and technologies continually evolve. While perfection is a lofty goal, you can rest assured that we will be ever vigilant in providing what you’d expect from Yamaha: oil on the market.