• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

TE511 Maintenance Frequency question

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L4V

Husqvarna
Howdy all,
.
Speaking to a dealer recently, I was told to bring it back after 30 - 60 miles for an oil change & valve check. Then, after 100 hrs, the motor will need a new piston/ring. Wow! Is that true? I don't plan on wringing its neck - just putting around using its 511 torque.
What's the forum wisdom say about this? Thanks.
 
L4V said:
Howdy all,
.
Speaking to a dealer recently, I was told to bring it back after 30 - 60 miles for an oil change & valve check. Then, after 100 hrs, the motor will need a new piston/ring. Wow! Is that true? I don't plan on wringing its neck - just putting around using its 511 torque.
What's the forum wisdom say about this? Thanks.
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Ridiculousness. Your dealer in super uninformed. Many of us myself included have well over 3500 miles and full compression and running fantastic. Great bikes IMHO. I hope to get 10K before even thinking about it. Valves have not moved, compression is 100%.
 
Thanks for your quick response.
I'm not a newbie to the moto world by any means, and I thought for sure this must be BS. Maybe the service guy was trying to create more service $$?
It struck me as so off base & ludicrous that it was borderline comical. Who would plop down $7,500 and be looking at that issue down the road?
I don't want to off-road that badly.
Problem is, now I don't trust him/them.
 
L4V said:
Thanks for your quick response.
I'm not a newbie to the moto world by any means, and I thought for sure this must be BS. Maybe the service guy was trying to create more service $$?
It struck me as so off base & ludicrous that it was borderline comical. Who would plop down $7,500 and be looking at that issue down the road?
I don't want to off-road that badly.
Problem is, now I don't trust him/them.
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The "book" might say change the piston at 100hrs just like a 2st MX bike says to change the piston every other race type thing. Silly. Very solid bikes. Buy it and ignore the idiot / maintain it yourself.
 
I wonder if they sell orange bikes...seems like a quote from the KTM manual. I did 275 miles before the first oil change and it was clean and pretty when it drained... almost as good as new oil. I'm over 630 miles and I'm just considering checking the valve clearance. I'm no racer so it's not beat to death and don't believe in over-fiddling (that a word?) with stuff if it runs good.

Trust is something I wouldn't invest in with this guy. He's either confused/misinformed or a sheister...or both maybe. None of them seem good for your bike or wallet.
 
Motosportz said:
The "book" might say change the piston at 100hrs just like a 2st MX bike says to change the piston every other race type thing. Silly. Very solid bikes. Buy it and ignore the idiot / maintain it yourself.
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The "idiot" is following Huskys recomendation (well sort off ) !

Oil 10 Hours, Valves check 30, replace 70 hours, Piston replace 70 hours etc....

For an x-lite its 32 hours for a piston !

While I agree this is if "raced" , it seems unfair to slag a dealer of for passing on Huskys advice !

You cant have it always !

If you want infomation from the Factory dont select the parts you like and dismiss other stuff with "I know best !"
 
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