• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Te 310 suggested oil

Thank you Soderberg for telling your experience with xlites oil. I've never heard an oil brand called midland here in Italy, but if it has worked well on 3 310 it should be good stuff. Since every now and then while working on computer I remember the oil worm and I look desperately for more information I came across this blog which has now become my motor oil bible:
https://540ratblog.wordpress.com/
Look at the rank of the new mobil1 fs 0W40, amazing performance oil even better than the 300V (and any other motorcycle specific oil tested) !!
 
A short story about Midland is that Oel-brack AG (Switzerland) started in 1880, made Quaker state for the european market for more than 10 years and sold QS for 60 years. 2003 they launched their own brand ”Midland” for the Scandinavian market. Perhaps also Germany and other countries in northern Europe, but that I dont know. Since then Quaker state is no more sold by Oel-brack. Their products is high end and used by several racing teams in Sweden.
Ola
 
First oil change done: drained all the original oil, installed the drain back kit, put a pc racing stainless filter and 900 ml of M1 0W40. On the pc racing filter i flipped the grommet to have the same lenght of original husqarna hf 116 paper filter (35 mm).
Now I'm quite ready for the first start, hoping that everithing is fine.
 
Bike started for the first time saturday and runned great, everithing seems to be fine. As soon as bike is finished, missing some little parts like transmission and handguards, I will post some pics of the bike finished and some of the rebuild work. Thaks guys for your kind help :cheers:
 
The important thing with these X-lite engines is flow flow flow. they make enough oil pressure to float plain bearing surfaces even with the lowest viscosity oil. The flow is super important for start up to get those plain bearings on an oil cushion as stated but also for its fast moving cooling effect as well. I always loved mine but for me they were a little too delicate, but with lots of TLC and some good bullet proof mods they hang in fairly well under hard conditions.
 
20200315_172432[1].jpg20200315_174433.jpg20200316_212943.jpg20200316_213155.jpg First oil change done after 45 minutes o heating cicles (I wanted to ride it but I was missing the front sprocket, dealer sent me a wr 300 one) and thank goodness that I changed it. Oil was already dark full of metal contaminations and oil filter was full too of metal debris both steel and brass color (bushings). I refilled with 940 ml of M1 and the second pc racing new filter, I hope to find less debris the next oil change. Below some pictures of oil, oil filter and a litlle preview of the mighty 310R
 
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