• 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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New bike to much oil??

Chas Madison

Chas Madison

Husqvarna
A Class
Howdy, I have a 2012 te511 only 85mi's, when parking after a short ride I have about a halfdollar size spot of oil on the ground over a 5 hr period. traced the leak back to a hose from air box that drains to the ground. green oil for sure ,not sticky filter type oil. Could this bike be over filled from factory?? Should I just drain it and start over? I think these take 1 qt exactly. Any ideas would be helpful.
 
Mine was grossly overfilled from factory. On my first outing off-road I had oil all over the motor coming from the airbox. I checked
the sightglass and it was definitely overfilled although it was deceiving because I couldn't see a level. In other words all I could see was oil.
Anyway, being that I just bought it a couple days prior I took it back to the dealer and they confirmed it was way over filled, corrected it,
cleaned it up and that was it.
 
It was over filled and the oil blows onto the air filter and colors the oil.... Check the oil for a gas smell when you drain it.
 
Ok. This seems to be happening to alot of 511 riders so here's what ive figured out.

1- put my bike on the jack with both wheels just touching the ground. Sight glass showed just over half. Went for a ride and spewed oil.

2- scratch head.

3- same procedure but ensure bike is perfectly level side to side. Ahha.

Try this yourselves and you'll probably note as I did that there is a big difference between kinda level and actually level.

No more oil spewing for me.
 
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