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TE511 Oil change question/issue

afrowhitie

Husqvarna
C Class
Hi Guys,

Great to be on the forum.

I'm relatively mechanically challenged but felt an oil change was fairly easy.

Removed overflow bolt
Removed 2 bottom filters
Drain oil
cleaned filters
refitted

Filled up with oil until i could see overflow bolt drip
replaced bolt

I noticed a bit of oil on the ground today after a short ride to work.

See attached photo of source (up near the tank). Any ideas - did i overfill it ? Did i put a filter back wrong?
2013-03-15

Have a big ride planned in a day so would appreciate some feedback

Thanks
 
"Removed overflow bolt "
What is this?

All you do is cold fill till oil in sight glass (preferably only just showing to give room for it to warm up and drain back).
Then warm it up 3-5 min and re-check glass. Keep around mid level. :)
 
It's very easy to accidentally over fill the oil on these. Mine came way over filled from factory. When you say overflow bolt I'm
assuming you're talking about the magnetic drain plug ? The best way to ensure you're draining all the oil is to remove filler cap, drain plug,
filter and both screens then lean the bike all the way over a few times in both directions. I'll actually get under it and do a few bench presses
with the bike being my bar bells. It's also a good idea to measure how much came out. After buttoning it all back up I will add a liter and that's
usually good. If you go just by the sight glass when it's cold it's not always going to be accurate. You have to warm the engine up for a bit and maybe
even ride it up the street and back, then turn it off and check the sight glass giving it a minute or two to drain back down.
 
A liter or a quart? At a quart mine shows the bottom 1/4 of the glass s/b just perfect till someone comes up with a marketed solution to the breather problem. Mine also came with way too much oil, just did the break in oil change after 100mi, partially cause it was throwing up on the air filter (I even talked to it about beer before liquor?) If I were you I'd pull the air filter and clean it cause its prob soaked with oil, not air filter oil either. Mine was!
 
A quart =946l and mine will hold right at 900l without puking on my air filter, so that's how much I use and just
Change it ALOT. Comes to top of the sight window when warmed up with this amount,
 
Thanks for the tips! May have to work up to bench pressing it but will definitely drain a bit of oil and clean the air filter in the mean time.
 
I am definitely mechanically challenged.........how hard is it to change oil on my new te511? do I have to change the filter every time?????????? an expert here says I should change the oil after 30 miles (when new)....but im feeling overwhelmed already........I want to ride not wrench.
 
I am definitely mechanically challenged.........how hard is it to change oil on my new te511? do I have to change the filter every time?????????? an expert here says I should change the oil after 30 miles (when new)....but im feeling overwhelmed already........I want to ride not wrench.

The first oil change is to get all the crap out of the new engine at 30-100 miles. after that, every 300 miles or so and your good to go. Oil change is a cinch, takes about 10 minutes once you figure it out. I just bought 10 filters to begin with and change them every time. Should last me over 3000 miles and they are cheap.
 
The first oil change is to get all the crap out of the new engine at 30-100 miles. after that, every 300 miles or so and your good to go. Oil change is a cinch, takes about 10 minutes once you figure it out. I just bought 10 filters to begin with and change them every time. Should last me over 3000 miles and they are cheap.
thanks I will buy some but I want to change oil now. (bike has 30 miles on it......and I don't have a filter.......maybe this first oil change i will do without filter. what u think about that? where did u buy filters . online? amazon, with free shipping?
 
thanks I will buy some but I want to change oil now. (bike has 30 miles on it......and I don't have a filter.......maybe this first oil change i will do without filter. what u think about that? where did u buy filters . online? amazon, with free shipping?
maybe this first time I will take filter out and rince it with oil and put it back in? this first time I think im ok to do that? or maybe I just not do filter this first time?
 
I would change the filter if at all possible........especially on the first change because it has prolly picked up a good amount of debris from a new engine. However if you don't have a filter, fresh oil and a rinse of the old one is better than nothing. IMHO
Also be sure to clean the 2 screens!!
 
I would change the filter if at all possible........especially on the first change because it has prolly picked up a good amount of debris from a new engine. However if you don't have a filter, fresh oil and a rinse of the old one is better than nothing. IMHO
I love this site....café husky is great! maybe I will get some filters ......im being overwhelmed by info. etc. debating buying a third bike now a terra.........yet im overwhelmed by having two.......I cant spend my whole life on this.......thanks , I will investigate getting a filter.
 
im keeping te610 selling te511. that is final....that bike has not performed as advertised. its not a dual sport its a dirt bike
 
At an AMA Dualsport event there are 3 levels A, B, C the Husqvarnas and the KTM street legal bikes are A level bikes...which is a mostly dirt course intended for racers/near racers/experience off road riders. Those bikes can also run the B level course which I would say is aimed at more casual riders/bikes such as KLRs, XRs, etc. The C level is pretty much light Adventure bike territory, pavement and gravel roads for the most part the Terra fits well here and could do B in a good riders hands.

The 610 is a solid B course bike than can also run the A course in an experience off road riders hands and is reasonably comfortable on the C course, too.

Even the AMA gets that there is more than one level of Dualsporting.

Anyone wandering into Cafe Husky and asking where the 449/511 fit in the dualsporting world would have been told it is a competition dirt bike with lights, and many have done so. This is highly desirable to some, and not so much to others. Unless you want to go with the old tech XR/DR then the B level dualsport bike has pretty much been abandoned by manufacturers. The 630 was the last Husky that really fit there. The 511 has a chance to made into such a bike, but it certainly wasnt designed to be a light adventure bike/commuter/long distance ride.

For what its worth I think that BMW/Ducati et al are misadvertising the off-road worthiness of the GS bikes...but some people actually do ride them in gnarly terrain and race them at Dakar.

Back to the BMW/Huskys. Gear it up, change the tires, put a Seat Concepts seat on, add a Nomad tail tank and apply some of Tinkens oil management tips and the 449/511 becomes a serviceable modest distance road bike. Convert to a wide ratio transmission and it becomes both a modest distance road bike and still works off road if the terrain isnt too gnarly. The close ratio transmission pretty much forces you to go one way or the other with the sprockets to fit road speeds or offroad speeds.

I actually rode a TE250 on a 120 mile road trip once with nothing but a tire change and sprocket swap. My butt was not impressed...
 
Yeah I guess it's how you advertise it though. Like most KTMs that are platable are typically advertised around here as "Enduro" because it's a dirt bike with a plate. The Yamaha 250s and Honda 250 / 230 that are plateable with no mods are so restricted that they advertise them as 'Dual Sports' and not 'Enduro'... Since they are so restriced- they won't need as much in terms of maintenence. The TE models should always be advertised as 'Enduro' imo - as riding them for long periods of time would probably not be sustainable without a lot of maintenence.

I think - last I checked online - I saw the TE310R's as Enduro. But I know when I was shopping for a TE 250 - they were 'dual sport'. Which is kind of tough to figure but whatever
 
Im old, so this is the first thing I think of when someone calls something an enduro bike...
CT175.jpg


And if I hit the Enduro section of the KTM USA site

http://www.ktm.com/us/enduro.html

I find a combination of street legal and not street legal bikes.

In my neck of the woods an Enduro event isnt very common and pretty much implies some sort of timekeeping component to an off road race...with no need for actual street legality. For instance our OMRA ISDE events are purely offroad with a combination of transit sections and test stages. (They are in fact, not International, Not Six Days and probably not Enduros...rendering the acronym bastardized)

Enduro and Dualsport suffer from the same lack of standardized definition IMHO.
 
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