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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
FE/FC OW40 Mobil 1 Oil
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bikesparky
Husqvarna
AA Class
Bloody hell bikesparky are you sponsored by Elf
I wish!!
Just dislike overpriced shit like Motorex. Retail $116 for 4 L you're kidding right!!! Does it have gold in it and how much?
Oil from Switzerland, they don't even have oil there!
I used silkolene for ages and again both the oil and chainlube is really good.
Then I discovered that In NZ and OZ you could get this Total and Elf (same manufacturer) from a local distributor.
Stumbled across it as I was looking for Citroen LHM oil which is the same as the Magura blood in the KTM magura clutches but at a fraction of the price (I'm a cheap ass).
Been using it ever since and could afford another bike with the savings over shitorex!
Cosmokenney
Husqvarna
Pro Class
ohmygewd
Husqvarna
Pro Class
According to Shell Australia, Rimula is a different oil to Rotella T which is a US Based oil according to them...reading all the responses l'd interpret the Shell spokemen as "we don't label our Shell diesel oil in cars and motorcycles, only trucks", some aussie guys report that Rimula X works fine in their road bikes?
bikesparky
Husqvarna
AA Class
The hondas do and they blow up all the time. Either the valves drop or 5th gear lets go and says hello hatching trough a hole in the casing
The tranny are only gears and they help to cool the rest down, it gives the engine increased oil capacity.
One thing I have to give credit to KTM for is the engine design, easy to work on and they designed a lot of things properly.
Did the valves on the 501 yesterday, takes an hour and all within tolerance after 60 hours. Did one inlet as it was just on the minimum spec, which I don't like, so I put a one size smaller shim in.
All looks proper clean and no wear at all.
Anyway back to tread... I use ELF...
sned2502st
Husqvarna
AA Class
reveille
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Use whatever oil makes you sleep good at night.
sned2502st
Husqvarna
AA Class
duggoey
Husqvarna
Pro Class
$110 AUD for 5 liters of the Mobil 1 over here. So instead I bought some Penrite 10w40 full synthetic at half the cost for the BMW to try it out. Was going to get 10w50 as it likes slightly thicker oil when warm but we're coming into winter, and anyway this oil was only $60 for 4L and was on the shelf with JASO and MP ratings.