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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Te511 oil shower

The TC449 is 5 speeds. Technically 2011 and 2012 cases are different, but for practical purposes, they are exactly the same. ;P
 
Tinken said:
The TC449 is 5 speeds. Technically 2011 and 2012 cases are different, but for practical purposes, they are exactly the same. ;P
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I cant believe an engineer said "practical purposes" and "exactly" in the same sentence :)

I think we really have a 6 spd vs 5 speed vs 2011 vs 2012 case issue and the tech writers figured .... yea they are "exactly" the same !!

Im putting a liter in my 6 speed 2011 449 and we will see if she blows, pre and post Tinken vent (that should be trademarked)
 
oregonsage said:
I cant believe an engineer said "practical purposes" and "exactly" in the same sentence :)
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Hahaha you got me on that one. I only recommend the max amount of 1150cc, but I had to do the no brainier test of putting the bike on it's kick stand and filled the case until it over flowed out the fill threads. Still, no oil past the breather bottle. 1150cc of 40 weight oil would work fine. :)
 
Tinken said:
Lay it down on the right hand side and give it a few throttle pulls :thinking: (just kidding...)
Re-burning the blow-by gasoline is actually a good thing and you shouldn't have oil in the air box with the valve cover vent.
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I need the oil to come out for my auto chain lube application. :p
 
Yesterday Danny at Zipty said the breather mod would ship today. I'm guessing the bottle will be another few weeks...
 
Josh Feller said:
so what is the eta on zip ty/tinken breather bottle mod?
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I will ask when I run by the shop today. Ty transported my 511 to the machine shop on Monday for fitting of another prototype. The bottle is a bit more complicated than everyone elses because it fits four models across 3 years with all different types of headers.

oregonsage said:
I am going to try the Zip-Ty valve cover breather to see if it allows for a bit more oil to be run, but running the typical 2-3 hours GP/XC races in the northwest and changing the oil after every race it has held up fine so far as-is.
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The Breather vents are now officially up for sale here: http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/breather-vent-mod.31183/page-4#post-294352
 
511BRAAP said:
If I did mine over, would tap the filler plug with a 90 deg elbow instead of a straight fitting, so the hose could be better routed around the clutch, closer to the motor.
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I like the idea of adding a straight AN fitting to the fill plug and then a swivel 45-90° similar to what Randy produced. This would be much more convenient come oil time and look good.

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I'd like to see a pic of the oil fill plug with a barb or one of the fittings shown above installed. Also, where are those fittings shown above from and what size would be appropriate? I just want to get this whole kit together before I put it on the bike. I don't know what size hoses, etc to run. I could figure it all out; I'm not that stupid...but I wouldnt mind capitalizing on someone else's research haha.
 
Tinken said:
I like the idea of adding a straight AN fitting to the fill plug and then a swivel 45-90° similar to what Randy produced. This would be much more convenient come oil time and look good.

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Perfect, red is fast and black is stealth! Where did you find those?

Got the breather mod, planning to do tonight. Nice looking mod Tinken. I think I will wait for the bottle and tap filler cap to mess with AN fittings.
 
Jegs and Summit racing are two great retailers, though I buy mostly from Jegs. I hadn't responded yet because I was thinking of an answer to K5PL5.
Stay away from AN 5, it's an odd ball size. My oil return that is currently on my 511 now is AN -4 which works with stainless steel tubing. AN -6 will probably be what I will be going to for all my oil breather connections. The valve cover vent currently just has a 3/8" hose pressed onto it without a clamp, there is no pressure and it doesn't leak, but I will end up dressing up things a bit with simple AN fittings from Jegs. Our return cap will take up to a 1/4" npt thread, but 1/8"npt works fine too.

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http://www.jegs.com/c/Fittings-Hose/181705/10002/-1
 
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