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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

449/511 Breather hose mod

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Is it possible to put a 1-way valve the thing on the return line?

EDIT: Like what swatdoc did with his graves tank on his yammy 450;

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My problem with the Graves on our bikes is how small the oil return line is and how close the check valve is to the box. When oil loads in the box there isn't much drop on the return line to build enough head pressure to overcome crankcase pressure, it probably drains after the engine is off. On our bikes that box would not handle the blow-by during warm up , that is if you want to run 1400+cc oil . During my tests i was able to back flow into my funnel at a fairly high rate and the engine would obsorbe it back fast , that was with 2000cc. With 1600 cc I was able to see a steady flow out the breather then it stopped, possibly the oil wasn't warm enough or there was high oil around the torque converter and was shooting right at the breather, possibly steep hill climbs and decent could trigger this blow by too.
 
I know how to solve this whole mess. Just watch an episode of American Moonshiners and learn from them boys. All we need is a 5' length of stainless tubing wrapped into a 4-6” diameter coil instead of a bottle.

Just like fine corn squeezins, that coil will cool and condense the oil fog and allow it to return to the case either with a modified filler cap, or the bung and fitting.

Disclaimer...if you think I'm making fun of my southern brothers, well I ain't. Hell I'm from Kentucky.
2nd disclaimer....this will not turn your TE into a still for making fine liquor and it is not recommended you fill the crankcase with sweet mash.
 
Yes the coil ! Ha ha those are easy , just fill the tubing with sand before wraping to get the mandrel bends , if you go with brass coils heat the tubing with a torch then dip into a cold bucket of water, you will be able to wrap into a knot :)
 
Simple solution, Maybe I will spray my engine with this stuff below and let the oil roll off :lol: Cool stuff.
Kidding, Keep up the great work!
 
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