• 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.

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Water in the oil TXC 250 2009

R

rudyunknown

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi All

I recently rode an off road event and came back and wanted to change my oil. Since it was covered in mud, i used my garden hose to clean the bike...
Once done, i went ahead and changed the oil and the oil filter....as soon as i ran the bike for a few mins, the oil turned white...i knew something was wrong...i drained the oil to see white oil coming out clear indication somehow the water got into the bike...maybe thru the air box is my assumption. I drained the oil and put in the old oil i just got out of the bike in to clean it of the excess water...ran it for a few mins...drained and put in new oil...ran i for little bit longer than the old oil i just put in...and then again i see the oil turn white....

Is there another way that the water might have got into the engine?
Or is this still the water that might have been there inside that still turned the oil white again?
Any other reason.

The first time i changed the oil (after my ride, the oil came out clean...only after the oil change did it turn white...

Thanks
Rudy
 
Are your radiators still full?

We wash our bikes all the time with a hose without getting water into the bike but I suppose it could be possible. Maybe the spark plug is loose and water got in through there? Hopefully nothing worse.
 
when i wash mine I jam a towel or large rag in airbox around the air filter because the air box it quite open and it
is easy to blast dirty water thru air filter into the intake but i dont think this is where it is coming from with yours
maybe engine breather hose has come off where it comes out of frame under the tank and when washing it might cop a direct hit
and go straight into engine. Always check the coolant level as they dont hold much.
 
After i did the second oil change with AGIP oil (expensive)...it turned to white..since i had already changed the oil three times, first with clean AGIP then with the old oil and third time with AGIP again (all three times i made sure the filter was changed too)...and when i stopped it yesterday night...

so this morning, the first thing i did was check the oil glass..the oil was transparant as it should be...then when i ran the bike for a minute i see the white foam come back.....so to asnwer ray_ray the oil did settle back to normal...but when i start the engine it turn mayonise in minutes....

then i checked the coolant...i could see the coolant on the top of the fins...there was a lot of mud on the bottom of the bike....so when i maybe hosed it something went in?

I have one and half quart left of the agip...i dont want to waste it...is there any other oil (Rotella or anything cheaper) that i can use to do the oil change in case it turns white again....if the third run through is fine then i might put the AGIP back in the engine
 
rudyunknown said:
After i did the second oil change with AGIP oil (expensive)...it turned to white..since i had already changed the oil three times, first with clean AGIP then with the old oil and third time with AGIP again (all three times i made sure the filter was changed too)...and when i stopped it yesterday night...

so this morning, the first thing i did was check the oil glass..the oil was transparant as it should be...then when i ran the bike for a minute i see the white foam come back.....so to asnwer ray_ray the oil did settle back to normal...but when i start the engine it turn mayonise in minutes....

then i checked the coolant...i could see the coolant on the top of the fins...there was a lot of mud on the bottom of the bike....so when i maybe hosed it something went in?

I have one and half quart left of the agip...i dont want to waste it...is there any other oil (Rotella or anything cheaper) that i can use to do the oil change in case it turns white again....if the third run through is fine then i might put the AGIP back in the engine
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The reason I brought up the oil changing in color back to black, was because someone else had an issue such as yours and it was just the engine churning the oil and making it foamy and white ... He'd dump the oil quickly after running the engine and it would change back to the color black in a short time span ...

Use some cheaper oil if you are gonna test for water again ... no point in wasting that expensive AGIP oil ... About any oil will work in this case ...
When my water pump oil went out, there has no chance of missing the milky oil in the sight glass AND it just took a few minutes for the oil to turn the wrong color AND the oil stayed milky looking for a long time.
 
thanks for the reply...i will flush it with rotella $12 gallon oil...hopefully its just some water in the engine when i hosed it and nothing worse than that..

however shout out to the AGIP oil guys, i bought the whole case form them online...and was inquisitive abt if there might be oil degeneration since i had the oil on my shelf for sometime....and they are sending me out a kit that would test the oil for me...

i will keep posting here....with the updates...thanks everyone
 
so i am getting there with the oil out of the syste,...i called the local mechanic and he told me to run the oil for longer period of time not for 2 mins and dump the oil...he told me to run the system long enough to get all the water out....in doing so...i ran the bike hot and could see some smoke comming...it turns out i bent one of the radiator holders and might have punctured the hosesthat goes into the water pump....

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so i removed it and out came the coolant...which is really slimy....is it the coolant in the hose and the pump that came out...because after maybe a lot of it comming out i checked the radiator and still could see the coolant at the top....so my question is how do i get the coolant back into the same level as in not running low on coolant...and do i now have the flush the whole system...if so how to do it....and can i take the water pump out and see if the seal there is fine and need changing.....

the oil though is still getting murky but if i let it stay for a while it turns back to normal...but since i got the hose out..do i now have to do
1) coolant flush or add more coolant...i have no idea what stuff went in....and what coolant people usually use...
2) do i need to open the water pump and check the seal...and where to buy it from (Halls?)

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