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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
First off, the numbers on the front of a bottle of oil are pretty close to meaningless. Secondly, Husqvarna specifies a viscosity that is too high for the 250/310 engines flow capacity.
Mobil 1 Lubricants & Specialties pg.10FAQs for Mobil 1™
Is it true that new engines need break-in periods using conventional motor oil?
That is a myth. In the past, engine break-in was necessary to remove metal flashing or any other abrasive material left inside the engine after machining, as well as to allow the valves and rings to "seat" properly. Today's engines are built with much tighter tolerances, much improved machining, and under much cleaner conditions compared to the engines of 10 or 20 years ago. Current engine manufacturing technology does not require a break-in period using petroleum-based motor oils.
I bought it not knowing about the performance issues of the bike when stock. Once I got it home and rode it, I knew something was wrong so I called the dealer and started asking about why it would be low on power. The sales guy said would have Service call me, but no one did. I found this forum and learned what they should have done and called them back. The Service guy was basically like, I have no idea what you are talking about, why would we do performance mods to a brand new bike without specific request. I told him the bike requires it to run right but got nowhere. Eventually, I knew I would have to pay them to do anything, I'd get no advice and it would void my warranty so I decided to do air filter frame, v-stack and cat removal myself, ride out warranty then remap. I have done the first two and it is now rideable, only having occasional stalls at low rpm, when starting out. It has good power and is now rideable at least.