• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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Oil drain valve vs bolt.> te511

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huskylove

Husqvarna
Pro Class
So just think out loud here.....How cool would it to just turn a knob and drain your oil? No more worrying about threads that may strip or break.

Everytime I drain my oil i worry a bit, and because I am changing the oil so much (daily city rider and canyon carver) I wonder if a nice ball valve with safety wire or lock, with a hose routing behind the skidplate by the swingarm....Just get the bike nice and hot, pull the safety and open a valve...it will drain super nice into your container.

I am changing the oil every 350-500 miles depending on use. Most of the time I go until 500 and clean my reuseable stainless screen/filter ever other change. I am going to stop checking the secondary screens here shortly, maybe every 3-4 oil changes with those. (never find anything and they are a pita to get in and out).

What do you guys think...is it too risky?

Have a valve that if it fails you lose all of your oil in seconds?
 
That looks like a pretty stout design. Heck, they have plastic radiators with cheapy looking plastic drain valves that have worked well for 20 years+ on many cars. Sure heard of worse ideas.

Ohhhhhhhh Tinken.....

This could be a great ZTR product.
 
Have one sitting on my counter, gonna pass on that idea. I'd order some extra middle bolts from 7602, pretty sure you can drain the oil from the center screen and never touch the drain bolt.
 
I use jeffs. Mainly because the zip to wouldn't fit with my auto tuner sensor. Jeffs doesn't really fit it's leaned rearward a bit. Once the tuner is done I'll be golden. I welded the wide band rearward and towards the engine....then found out about breathers lol.
 
I'm not talking about the breather, the drain back system. You can use my drain back with his breather bottle.
 
No I use the toxic moto. Drains Back Into The Oil filler. I use the zip ty rocker cover relocation kit with the smaller toxic motor breather catch can.
 
This is fantastic. I wonder what thread the oem 449 511 drain is? I would use one of those for sure! The cap makes it "feel" safer. The hose would be perfect!
 
You can always just get the drain bolt to AN fitting from us and attach whichever AN hose fitting you wish...
 
huskylove said:
I am changing the oil every 350-500 miles depending on use. Most of the time I go until 500 and clean my reuseable stainless screen/filter ever other change. I am going to stop checking the secondary screens here shortly, maybe every 3-4 oil changes with those. (never find anything and they are a pita to get in and out).
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If I had not checked those screens I would have never know that a tab had broken off a clutch plate. I found the broken tab and bunch of metal slivers on the screens. It is worth checking them.


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River-Runner said:
I have one of these fumoto valves on my diesel pickup truck with a hose fitting, I can drain 12 qts of oil into separate waste containers without spilling or making a mess. A lot of guys use these on their trucks - never heard of a problem.
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The fumoto valves are a beautiful thing. I have one on my current truck and had one on the previous truck. On the older truck (2k Dakota QC), the oil would drain into the skid plate and create a massive mess.
 
The center drain on mine has bad threads from new.
If you pull that plug you have to replace it as the threads are all galled.
I have a thread tap but can't get it in past the frame.
Have to pull the engine?
:-(
 
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