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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Different oil question

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Put this on TT as well asi'm a little bemused
Did several searches yesterday, to try and find what oil Husky recomends. But couldn't find out ? sure it's here somewhere.should be anyway
Anyway what I did find was that lots of people claim "this is the best oil I have ever used" or "had great results with this brand"

My Question is, what do people base this on? I have used a variety of oils over the years, and they all seem to work the same to me i.e my engine doesn't get screwed up. So what makes a good oil, that gives great results?
 
My manual calls for AGIP 10W60.

I'll be using Motorex 10W60 when I change it.

As far as good/bad oil, I don't think you will go wrong as long as you change your oil when it's necessary, keep the viscosity range reasonable, and stay away from friction modifiers if you have a wet clutch.
 
I wanted to use what my owners book recommended, but it isn't available around my neck of the woods. My dealer suggested that I use Maxima Premium 20/50 for my TE. It is not really anything special and is a petroleum based oil. I have used it and I have used HondaGN4 20/50. The clutch drags a little less when the bike is cold with the Honda oil. I'm not particularly hard on any of my bikes, so I don't worry about using expensive Synthetic blends. The motor looks to be in good shape. so far and I make sure to change the oil at regular and somewhat short intervals.
 
I'm not sure your question can be sufficiently answered in a short post to truly clear up any confusion on what makes a good oil, or things it would led to like what formula is best, or is reg oil better or worse than synthetic oil.
You can find many articles better explaining oil and oil weights, and many tests reports out there claiming one better than another.

My guess is most people based their selection on what a trusted friend/mechanic has told them, and/or expert advice they've read. Some will steadfastly use only the exact oil the mfr recommends. Personally I've used regular brand name motor oil, Bel-Ray, Maxima, etc, then started using Golden Spectro many years ago, felt my bikes ran a bit smoother and cooler with it, trusted the quality, so stuck with it and highly recommend it.........but bottomline the best oil for general all around use is clean quality brand name oil available to you, meeting standards recommended in owners manual (as most most major oils do) and clean filter. IMO weight isn't as critical, but 10w/40 works well for cooler temps, 20w/50 for hot climates......I also found Husky's suggested 10w/60 hard to find.
I know guys that ran standard Penzoil &/or Valoline motor oil in their bikes for many years w/o problem, but changed every other ride. No doubt good maintenance w/frequent oil/filter changes will go alot farther than never changing the top synthetic.
 
RLW;14551 said:
Bottomline, the best oil for general all around use is clean quality brand name oil available to you, meeting standards recommended in your owners manual and clean filter.
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Ya What he said. :thumbsup:
 
chamber66;14523 said:
Put this on TT as well asi'm a little bemused
Did several searches yesterday, to try and find what oil Husky recomends. But couldn't find out ? sure it's here somewhere.should be anyway
Anyway what I did find was that lots of people claim "this is the best oil I have ever used" or "had great results with this brand"

My Question is, what do people base this on? I have used a variety of oils over the years, and they all seem to work the same to me i.e my engine doesn't get screwed up. So what makes a good oil, that gives great results?
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The Husky spec calls for 10W60. Oil viscosity as indicated by the numbers, particularly the higher number which indicates viscosity at 212 degrees F, should not be disregarded as it affects hydrodynamic load bearing capacity. I did a lot of oil testing in the '80s and found then that Mobil1 far outclassed standard dino oils...I've used synthetics ever since. I have been using the Motorex 10W60 synthetic and it is very good stuff. The best source that I have found is Oneida Suzuki
http://www.oneidasuzuki.com/store/parts-accessories/motorex-power-synt-4t.html
 
I have been running Amsoil 20w50 since the 1st oil change and swapping it every 400 - 600 miles. I have about 2800 on the bike, and it still looks good inside. Sometimes I find the clutch is a little grabby, but I only use it for launching and stopping, so that is no big deal. I will probably continue with it as the 10w60 is a stinker to locate. I wish I could locate it in a bigger quantity at a discount. Something like a 3 gallon drum would be awesome.
 
chamber66;14523 said:
My Question is, what do people base this on? I have used a variety of oils over the years, and they all seem to work the same to me i.e my engine doesn't get screwed up. So what makes a good oil, that gives great results?
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They base thier statements upon the fact they used a particular oil and the engine experienced no detramental affects from it. The advice to look for is that which has testing to prove it. Search the web. Several labs perform oil testing. And testing is the only way to know how an oil is performing is a given sitution. Two same machines operating, one near the artic and the other near Panama place very different loads on thier oils. Because of the new L O N G warrantees offered all current oils are of very good quality.

That beeing said, to the chap above who cahnges his oil every 600 to 800 miles, please send me your used oil:)
 
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