• 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.

    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

SS filter at oil change.

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This is what keeps giving me good vibes towards my bikes' engine condition \ life longevity ... Every time I've changed my oil and pulled the filter, it looks about like this ... Almost no grim and more importantly, only a ~very small amount of metal shavings ...

All I have to compare these 010 TC250s filters to, is my older bike, the 08 TXC250 with the older style engine. That bike went many many miles before any engine issues and always had metal shavings in the SS filter at each oil change ... Not alot, but metal filing could always be seen trapped in filter.

Each of these pics is a different side of the filter immediately after pulling it out the bike.
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I'm an SS filter guy ... And I need a couple more ...The same size filter fits honda bikes and that keeps the price down I was told ...

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The first time I pulled that one out with too many hrs on it to mention here between an oil change, it was so clean, I was thinking the oil was not even going thru it...Like maybe the pop-off valve was stuck open ...

I got the bike at ~50 hrs and changed off the paper filter just about then ... The bike is sitting at ~225 hrs when that picture was taken...
 
The one thing no one ever takes into consideration is vibration. No matter how much you sift the particles, they cannot fall through a SS filter. On paper/fiber, they will eventually find a larger hole and pass through. This also happens on K&N air filters and is why you see manufactures add filter skins over the top.
 
Just did another oil change on the 310, my filter looks about the same. I have 2 Moose SS filters so the clean one is ready to go when I do a change. Plus I use the filter magnets from Zip-Ty.
 
Maybe I am missing something here...but how is a clean filter a good sign? Is it not filtering? Or are there no particles to be filtered out?
 
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