• 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.

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Breather, breather box, and oil return installed...

tonskiguy

tonskiguy

Husqvarna
AA Class
Here's Randy Duke's (Rearwheelin's) breather box and oil return installed with ZipTy's valve cover breather on my 12 511. You can't see the Breather, but I routed the hose out the left side, back around the frame, under the seat, and into the breather box, then the box to the original air cleaner location. Oil drains back to ZipTy's filler cap. Works well so far. I did install the blue drain line to the air cleaner as well. No oil out the air cleaner to date.
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tonskiguy said:
Here's Randy Duke's (Rearwheelin's) breather box and oil return installed with ZipTy's valve cover breather on my 12 511. You can't see the Breather, but I routed the hose out the left side, back around the frame, under the seat, and into the breather box, then the box to the original air cleaner location. Oil drains back to ZipTy's filler cap. Works well so far. I did install the blue drain line to the air cleaner as well. No oil out the air cleaner to date.
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Man I really have been buisy to miss this post :) that looks very nice ! Light weight and strong . I like the sticker :)
 
After a week of severe duty in the Black Hills, the breather hose routed on top of the engine started seeping oil, but not enough to impeded the ride. Gotta clean up the bike today and see what is leaking. Otherwise, breather has been functioning as designed.Nemo 13 066.JPG .
 
That looks great. Glad to hear it functions as intended. Afraid I am being lazy. I ordered Tinkens stuff.
Like the look of yours, but I like Zyptys pretty pieces too. I will see how it works. Love your ingenuity.
 
Ok, the leak at the top of the engine was from the left drain hole in the air box cover, so, the oil is still pushing and must go into the breather box faster than it can return to the fill plug. Maybe the 1/4" return line is too small, or maybe the breather box needs to be bigger like Zip-Ty's. For now, I pugged the other hole in the air box, so, any overflow should make it's way out the installed "blue" overboard drain line. I need to ride the bike some more.
 
No hot breather gases hititing the air filter is best IMOA . If you believe the bottle isn't working it can be made into a radiator expansion tank or you can put a larger return hose like I used when I tested it. I run both breather vents with my bike and no breather can and have no gases what so ever going into my airbox. A good test is to make sure on the inside of your airfilter it is evenly oiled with no signs of the airfilter oil being broke down. The zIpty bottle is much better engineered for the right side of engine :) Also you are still the only one with my bottle and I still stand firm on a refund if you determine my bottle isn't working for you .
 
I'm OK with the bottle as is, I need to reconsider my breather hose routing and verify oil quantities. I also need to get the bike out again soon.
 
tonskiguy said:
I'm OK with the bottle as is, I need to reconsider my breather hose routing and verify oil quantities. I also need to get the bike out again soon.
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This is a test I did today . So much for oil not being able to go down the oem breather :busted: The Breather mod is an awesome mod but I don't think the can is necessary with my setup. If you choose to cap the oem breather then it forces all gas to the ZipTy breather and will carry more oil out than the oem breather making the ZipTy bottle or a bottle necessary IMOA :cheers:

View: http://youtu.be/UgRFakbbDLUhttp://youtu.be/00HQuNGu6Jk
 
I think you need to do this with sustained high RPM. Maybe hook up some clear hose and rig up a camera mount, then go hit the highway for about 5 miles, or, do it on a dyno. I only saw the oil push after a high speed run to or from the trail. What would really be nice would be if Tinken could install a clear cover on a Zip-Ty box, with video showing what's happening during a high speed run.
 
I already did high speed runs , about 90 miles on the highway is a high speed run to me :). This vid is to show that oil will go down the OEM breather. Me personally the bikes don't puke enough oil to justify the big ad on's any more now that my curent setup is gold to me :)
 
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