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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

X-lite breather hose idea

MikeB

MikeB

Husqvarna
AA Class
Changing my oil today for a race this weekend (supposed to rain Friday and snow Saturday morning during the race - yeehaww) I wondered again about the PITA drain bolt/breather hose thing. I'm pretty good at it by now and have Railwayrog's machined part hanging on the wall just in case. I've learned to use the open end of the wrench since it grabs the drain bolt ALL the way down against its flange to keep from stripping it.

Wouldn't it be easier if the damn thing fed into a custom oil fill cap with a spigot on it? The line runs right down between the front frame rails anyway. Feed the return oil into the oil fill cap instead of the oil drain plug - can anyone make such cap - ZipTy?
 
Wouldn't it be subject to the same crankcase pressure pulses in that location that cause the oil to flow up into the frame tank to begin with? I think you would just end up with two vent lines and no return by going that route.
 
Damn Mike-AK, I hate it when someone makes sense!
But ... there is only one oil supply in the bike so the trans and crankcase are connected. Does it really matter if the return line is connected under the oil level in the crank or above it by the clutch? I thought the whole sysem was there to catch oil vapors venting out of the cam tower, condense it, and send it back to the engine. I know Robertaccio had no trouble with venting his to the atmosphere but ... I'm still resisting doing that.
 
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