• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

FE/FC OW40 Mobil 1 Oil

I use Penrite HPR Diesel 15-50 on both the 350 and all motor cars...IMO, if you aint racing or giving the bike a hard time (on the limiter and clutch abuse) and changing oil and filter every 5-10 hrs, any quality semi synthetic oil with JASO MA rating and your good to go?
 
bikesparky said:
Hard to find in Oz, and still expensive compared to other countries.
I do agree with the Mobil1 0w40 idea and Thinken's train of thought, however in Oz it's not an option as far as I'm concerned.
I use Elf 10W50 which you can get from your local Elf-Total distributor. Have a look at the Elf Oz website for one in your area.
I know this is debatable but in my opinion Elf (or Total= the same) is one of the best oils available.
They don't do the big hooha thing but a lot of people use them for racing despite having different stickers on the bike.
This oil works extremely well for the hot conditions we have in Oz.
Go and have a talk to your local distributor ( I won't mention the price on here but you'll be very happily surprised) I'll buy this in 20l containers and it's well priced and VERY good.
The oil comes out clean after 5 Hrs and testing has proven if I leave it in longer due to the riding schedule it holds up very well.

I have been using this stuff for ages in different bikes and this oil performed exceptionally well even compared to big know brands.
I know, like tyres, oil is a personal preference. All I can say I never had to fix any of my bikes due to premature wear, lubrication issues, bad shifting gearboxes, slipping clutches, running hot or any of the oil related issues.
The 501 has 60 hours on it and the oil comes out clean and never had a spanner on it except for service.
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Waiting to see what they come back with on price. I've only placed the order pending cost. If its going to cost $100 or over I may as well buy bloody motorex.
 
duggoey said:
Waiting to see what they come back with on price. I've only placed the order pending cost. If its going to cost $100 or over I may as well buy bloody motorex.
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I wouldn't buy motorex if I can avoid it. The product is not better than anything else (personally I believe worse) and the price... are they mad??
Their chain lube is worthless unless you want to grease the frame, seat....
The brake fluid was rank after a few months (dry climate here, so no moisture) and the clutch fluid both in the husky and the SD1290 the same.
Changed it all to Elf 5.1 and the clutch fluid (magura clutch on the 1290 to LHM). Good ever since.
Elf chain lube is great too, when dry you can touch it and it doesn't fling off, if not overly muddy or bad conditions it's still on after a wash and can stay on for another ride. No rust, no wear.
 
ohmygewd said:
Bloody hell bikesparky are you sponsored by Elf :p
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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! :D
 
Cosmokenney said:
I think I read once that Shell Rotella goes by the name Rimula in OZ.
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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?
 
Bigbill said:
I wish the 4t engines had seprate oil compartments. The tranny is getting all the heat.
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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...:D
 
I have used nothing but Bel-Ray and Maxima for last 40 years, no probs whatsoever. Decided to try Mobil and have been using it for awhile now in all my bikes ( Bultacos, '84 Huskys and RMZ450 ) works great and the cost-savings is great
 
duggoey said:
Waiting to see what they come back with on price. I've only placed the order pending cost. If its going to cost $100 or over I may as well buy bloody motorex.
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$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.
 
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