• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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    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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Stainless oil filter

tonskiguy

tonskiguy

Husqvarna
AA Class
So, I bought the PC-167 oil filter for the TE511. Do I really need a spacer? The PC-167 measures about 2mm shorter than my paper filter. I see ZipTy sells a spacer, I guess that must get pressed or glued into the base recess of the filter. Any comments?
 
I went to the local hardware store and for 3.45 I bought a package of eight 3/4" diameter disc magnets they are about maybe 200 thousands thick. They fit into the base recess perfectly and just stick out enough to take up that slight difference in length. I didn't glue it in. It'll add to the 4 magnets strength already built in on the Billet cap that I am also running from ZipTY. I used the same magnets before as spacers with the PC167 and they will work perfectly with the stock cap also. I just thought it was a good idea to push in a bit on the filter so the end seal grommet both touches on the end of that filter cavity and the stem tube it slides on as well. It seemed to me to be a bit looser than the stock filters tightness on the tube and could sag down to an out of concentric position from just time and gravity since it is a smaller diameter. I didn't want that to damage the seal grommet. I would say the filter is only as good as that grommets condition over time. So allowing it to possibly become distorted didn't seem to be a good idea to me.

Cost about .45 cents. These magnets are ceramic and I deliberately tried out in my drive way to shatter one on the cement, twice and it just bounced. Twice. So the magnet as a spacer can only help collect crap in the system and it sure don't cost much.
 
Spacers should be around 0.240 for a solid fit. My original spacer was a 3/4" magnet, 0.25" thick.
 
I said they were about .200 thousands. I didn't bother measuring them exactly sorry as I didn't feel like going out to my garage to get the dial caliper. For a 45 cent part. I just looked at the other 7 of them on my fridge that is 10 ft away. Cost of about 45 cents was my point. Thanks for the info on the actual size needed though because these must be that size because like I said once before I stacked the filter with your billet cap back to back and side by side with the stock cap and filter and put one of the magnets I have in the recess and held them up to one another back to back and side to side to the light and the difference was neglible if at all. didn't check it with a feeler gauge or anything just installed it as it was good to go in the hole..If I had gone out to get the caliper. My pitbull jumps all over me when I go out to the garage to retrieve something and I hate it when I have to swat him upside the head for scratching my legs and getting me all dirty. He's a nut and you saved me a trip across his Domain. Thanks. I'm glad I could help.

A silly millimeter longer my eyes couldn't tell from 10 ft. way and I would have been doing some more laundry. LOL
 
K&P 2168 will fit the 511. The PC167 is a KTM filter for the 350/450. The K&P filter for those bikes is the 2167. The 2167 is 3.27 inches long, while the 2168 is 3.3" long.
 
The K&P filter is almost 3.5 times the cost of the pc racing filter. Both US made, but pc is slightly smaller.
 
I've got two of the K&P filters for my 310 so I can swap them out at oil change time. They are really well built.
 
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