• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

20 MPG on a TE 511?

Cosmokenney

Cosmokenney

Husqvarna
Pro Class
2013 TE 511. I've got a FMF exhaust. Map #3. Smog stuff off. Overflow routed to below the bike. 14/52 gearing.

Did a woods ride yesterday. At about 40 miles in, the low fuel light was on. Was riding a mix of fast double track/fire roads and single track.

Had one get-off and noticed a fuel spill on the ground while picking up my bike. I think the overflow is constantly relieving me of fuel. Can I put vacuum cap on the overflow nipple? Am I asking for trouble?
 
I get about 60 plus miles of harder trail riding out of mine. Do not plug that cap or you'll vacuum lock the tank and no fuel.
 
Cosmokenney said:
2013 TE 511. I've got a FMF exhaust. Map #3. Smog stuff off. Overflow routed to below the bike. 14/52 gearing.

Did a woods ride yesterday. At about 40 miles in, the low fuel light was on. Was riding a mix of fast double track/fire roads and single track.

Had one get-off and noticed a fuel spill on the ground while picking up my bike. I think the overflow is constantly relieving me of fuel. Can I put vacuum cap on the overflow nipple? Am I asking for trouble?
Click to expand...
I had the same problem with the light coming on, but I actually had more than enough fuel in the tank. Did you check how much was left.
 
The last race I got 25+ mpg in heavy sand and big sandy whoops and some real fast road sections. In some of the longer washes I would hold it WFO in 5th for miles.

TC449
 
Cosmokenney said:
Can I put a one-way breather on there?
Click to expand...

A one way valve will allow pressure to build in the tank. That is not good and can cause damage. The stock vent valve is a one way valve that will release pressure if it builds up. Why wouldn't you want to use it?
 
I get about 25mpg out of my 511 in sand with the after burners lit. You may have a faulty one way valve and you can find them online instead of ordering them from Husky. I ran my vent tube to my air box via a ZipTy breather vent nipple we carry. Works and I never smell fuel.
 
Tinken said:
I get about 25mpg out of my 511 in sand with the after burners lit. You may have a faulty one way valve and you can find them online instead of ordering them from Husky. I ran my vent tube to my air box via a ZipTy breather vent nipple we carry. Works and I never smell fuel.
Click to expand...


Score! I just googled for a one way fuel tank breather. After seeing the pictures of them, I remembered something. I saw one of the following on the trail and it was too shiny to not pick up. I thought it was a fork bleeder. It's been sitting in my back pack pocket for 3 months:

breather.jpg

:applause:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top