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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

What Oil Do You Guys Use?

herkko

herkko

Husqvarna
B Class
I just bought a 08 510 SMR, and was wondering what oil do you guys use in them. The previous owner used Motul 300v 10w40, but its gonna be pretty expensive along with the 500 mile oil changes I plan to do. Thanks!
 
I have used everything in my 07 450, all pure mineral base. I started out with Maxima 20-50, used the Motul mineral base 20-50. When I didn't have much money, I used both Rotella 15-40 and Supertech (Walmart) 15-40.
 
I was using Castrol racing 1 10w-60 was sold here and was affordable, but it was getting expensive, I switched to this Valvoline Synpower 10w-50, fully synthetic, that was good price also was working good and was lasting in my oil exchange cap what was 500-800km depending my throttle/rpm use.

To me that your oil is wrong 10w-40 is too low viscosity, when factory say 10w-60, so you can test it, all motorbike 4stroke engine oil is good, but you need that 10w-60 but at least 10w-50 viscosity. When i´am start to taking my bike back to use, i would start use this Motul 300V 2 factory line 10w-50 fully synthetic
 
I’ve been running Mobil 1 0W-40 for many years now without problems. I used to run rotella 5w-40 with no problems either. The bike shifts and runs better with 0w-40. In fact, all of my different 4 stoke engines are using 0w-40. When I first got my 08’ TE510 I was running 10w-60 and the shifting was terrible. I stuck with the factory recommendation for maybe a year and gave up on that. Everyone will have a different opinion on oil, but if you do some searching here, you will find these two oils have been used for a long time without issue.
 
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