• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

What oil is everyone running?

Z

zeddy

Husqvarna
AA Class
I tried doing a sear so if this has been covered I appologize.

What oil is everyone running, every time I run into another husky owner I get a different opinon on what oil to run.
I have been told AMSOIL 20w50, I have been told to use a Quality diesel oil a few times such as shell rotella or chevron delo 400 in 15w40.

I have been told so many different things I dont know who to believe!
 
I use the weight of oil specified by the manufacturer, 5W-40. I use Shell Rotella full syn. My 610 is a 2000 model.
 
I've run both the agip 10w-60, and rotella. I will probably go back to AGIP. Rotella is fine, but manual states 10w60.
 
Silkolene Pro 4 SX 10W-40 is what were using in the new 2010 TE 250 motor and have noticed less wear then we had coming from Amsoil.

Our 2stk has noticed considerable less fuel usage on the use Pro 2SX.. about 7 miles of hard wide open racing..

The nice thing is Silkolene has all great products from engine oils, grease, chain lubes, brake fluids, antifreeze, fork oils, contact cleaners , filter oil and pro prep plastic shine.

It makes it easy on us to stay with one product group..
 
Rekluse'd 510 gets Rotella. 250 gets Spectro 20-50 semi. Just pick one that doesn't have the friction modifiers added i.e. "energy conserving" and go for it. Change it every few rides. If riding the $hiznit out of it maybe change it more often. Nice thing about the new 250's is a bottle will do ya! Bad thing is.....that's not a whole lot of erl for that hot blooded engine compared to its predecessor. Time will tell.
 
I get tons of rotella 15w40 free so I was thinking of using it, if everyone else is. But it sure seems like there a wide range of oil being used other than the recommended 10w50
 
Another vote for Rotella. I use the dino 15W40. $60-70 for a 20L pail at Canadian tire. Probably cheaper elsewhere but I haven't bothered to look. I change often and have never had a problem so I have no reason to spend more $$ than necessary.
 
Amsoil 20W50 at temps 25C and above - has the same viscosity as 10W60 Aquip at start-up (40C) and has the highest viscosity at 100C of the oils I could easily purchase that are JASC rated.

I believe oil viscosity has it's biggest effect on the life of the cam chain and slider - it acts as a damper to the chains natural whipping at low rpm.

Below 25C I use a mixture Amsoil 20W50 (946ml) and Torco 10W40 MPZ racing oil (600ml). My clutch does not slip with the moly from the Torco and I have a few 5 gal pails of it for my Pro Street car. I believe the moly/phosphorus/zinc helps the sliding parts of the valvetrain live and the transmission shift easier.

Below 5C I use Esso XD3 0W30 diesel oil (1L) and Torco 10W40 (600ml) - and am careful to keep the rpm as low as possible until the motor has some heat in it. I don't want to open the oil filter bypass.


My 09 TE510 just turned 4000kms.

MAT
 
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