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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I couldn't resist yz450

Yeah love it so far. Looked around not a whole lot out there yet that I could find. Sounds like it was a good choice...too late now anyway...thx for input
 
My son has a 2011 YZ450 we bought new a year ago. It has been excellent so far with zero issues. The stock suspension on it is the best out of the crate suspension I've ridden so I can only imagine that the 2014 is even better. I put a skid plate, rad guards, AVS shorty clutch lever, bark busters a Sunstar Works Z 49 tooth rear sprocket and Tubliss with AT81s on it and now I can't keep up with him anymore.
 
lankydoug said:
My son has a 2011 YZ450 we bought new a year ago. It has been excellent so far with zero issues. The stock suspension on it is the best out of the crate suspension I've ridden so I can only imagine that the 2014 is even better. I put a skid plate, rad guards, AVS shorty clutch lever, bark busters a Sunstar Works Z 49 tooth rear sprocket and Tubliss with AT81s on it and now I can't keep up with him anymore.
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Good to hear, it has a 49 tooth rear stock. Been running 40 on the sm huskys. Putting back on the stock tires wheels etc..on the huskys this weekend I believe they have 48 rears stock so it will be interesting to see which pulls harder. This YZ is pretty amazing wheelies in 4th gear no problem. YZ is gonna be mainly my dune bike decided not to go with the husky te 300 2t about same money for either. Gotta get it broken in then see what she really got.
 
Hey Teambowles, great bike, little exy to maintain but youll love it, got a power tuner yet?
Heres my 2011, top end rebuilt @ 170hrs last month, could of gone to 200hrs according to my mechanic. Only carries 1 liter of oil, change it often. 6 to 10hrs max, pending what your doing. Enjoy


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PaulC said:
Hey Teambowles, great bike, little exy to maintain but youll love it, got a power tuner yet?
Heres my 2011, top end rebuilt @ 170hrs last month, could of gone to 200hrs according to my mechanic. Only carries 1 liter of oil, change it often. 6 to 10hrs max, pending what your doing. Enjoy


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Very nice...love the red hoses. I Noticed your running the stock pipe, this thing is fast torquey enough I'm not gonna change a thing except oil and a graphics kit at some point. The book says 730ml of oil, less than a quart which ain't much lol. So far everyone I've talked with has told me its a very reliable bike, I've only got about 4 hours on it so far so I'll do an oil change and tighten the chain.
 
730ml :eek:... better bring oil changers back to say 5 to 8hrs or keep an eye on the colour. Also keep the chain well lubed, if not you will tear threw the slider in no time. Mud is evil.
Anyhow there works of art these days, you can stare at em for hours
 
My 2011 yz450 manual says 1 L with filter change and .95 L without or 1 quart without and 1.06 quarts with filter.
 
I been told to change the oil on all these four strokes after each ride. Since they hold very little oil I guess my bike guru is right.

What's the average life to the original motor mileage wise?
 
Bigbill said:
I been told to change the oil on all these four strokes after each ride. Since they hold very little oil I guess my bike guru is right.

What's the average life to the original motor mileage wise?
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More than ten hours less than a million.
Nice bike i would be wanting to swap oil out when it changes colour as previously stated, regardless of ride time just colour or when shift gets sticky.
 
I agree even called my dealer about oil changes thought it was a misprint in manual. 690ml without filter 730ml with filter changes...wow. It's a sand bike only gonna ride it in dunes, has about 3 to 4 hours on her I will change oil and filter for the first time soon before I ride it again. So far all I talked to said these things are bullet proof...we'll see...with dune riding we ride and stop a lot so in a day we maybe put a couple hours on it so for a 5 day trip I should be fine not worrying about oil changes but a 10 day trip I may have to change it. All have said change oil frequently and adjust chain from time to time...bike is amazing, power is more than I will ever need even in sand, handling is great it just won't stop wheeling almost in any gear with clutch every gear. Couple guys here have over 200 hours on theirs and aren't worried about anything.
 
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