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

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511 HELP

motomanic

motomanic

Husqvarna
A Class
Hi, after the first outing,a gentle morning of byways, I noticed water coming out of the radiator overflow which drops straight down by the starter motor, and a misting of engine oil, which on inspection inside the air box, it sems to have collected oil and its run out the two drain holes over the top of the engine.
Firstly what causes engine oil in the air box, is this normal, and how is it stopped running onto the engine.
The water could be a one off, first proper outing, boiling up excess water, opinions please.
Lastly, and least annoying, I couldn,t change the speedo from kpm to mph (uk), after reading the instructions, which only added to my frustration. I haven,t read of any of these nigggles from other 449/511 owners on this forum. Help/ advice required please.
 
The oil drip can be caused by 2 things...too much oil on the filter and overfilling the engine oil. Oil the filter lightly and give it time to drip out before installing (good idea to have 2 filters so you can swap and ride). As for the engine oil, make sure you have it in the bottom half of the sight glass when level and it should be fine.
 
The bike was prepped by the dealer, I haven,t done a thing yet, its probably done about 45miles, ,(hard to tell because the speedo is reading kpm), there was quite a lot of oil in the air filter, it was engine oil and not air filter oil. I had to mop it up, not a quick wipe.What about the rad water?
 
If you just fill the oil per spec after a change it is a bit too much as I and a few others here have found. I alway run it a bit after the oil and filter change and then adjust oil level (use a turkey baster to suck a bit out if necessary..buy your own dont use the one from the kitchen!!) If oil level is in the upper half of the sight glass it will blow oil into the filter. These are new models and dealers havent learned all the tricks yet.

As for the radiatior Ive not seen or heard of anyone else have that problem.
 
Thanks, I have just read some previous threads regarding this oil problem, seems quite a few owners experienced this, so what is the correct amount of oil in Litres. I think from memory the book says 1 L, so how much are you guys actually putting in? If the factory overfill the oil, perhaps they overfil the radiator and that would explain the overflow?
 
My new 511 did exactly the same thing. It appears both the coolant and engine oil are overfilled from the factory.

The coolant drip will stop once it has pushed out the excess. At the first oil change I added a filter and exactly 1.1L of oil and that seems to be about perfect.

I also noticed the air filter was soaked in blue filter oil. The assemblers at the factory seem somewhat overenthusiastic with the fluids.
 
Thanks guys, that put my mind at rest, I also spoke to the dealer today who rides a 511 himself and he also agreed the factory are top heavy with the fluids, and it should have been corrected in the workshop, the extra oil, is blown up a breather pipe into the air box, therefore there is no pressure at the crank to cause damage, does that sound about right?
How many miles should you do before the 1st oil and filter, I was thinking about 100, its only done about 40 this could be a bit previous just to remedy the oil level.
And I stilll can,t get the speedo to mph from kph.
Wilst I have your attention has anyone got any gearing they can recomend, I feel it will stall on the slow stuff, although its good for the road as standard.
 
I dropped one full tooth on the front on my TXC and now it is great for even fast off-road stuff. The stock gearing is good for freeway speeds as near as I can tell. Motosportz (you could pm him) runs a TE511 and I think he just went up a couple teeth on the back for Dual Sport use.

Someplace I have the maintenance schedule, but I always like to do a oil and filter change after the first ride or two to get any manufacturing scraps out of the engine.
 
I am finding the SMR a bit undergeared for the highway. It seems to buzz fairly high at 100 km/hr (60 mph). Thinking I might go down 2 teeth on the rear.
 
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