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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2008 Husky SM 450

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G8R

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hello! So I changed the oil on my bike and went to Amsoil 20 50 full synthetic and now the clutch seems to slip when coming outta first :( Any ideas why? Thanks
 
You have to be careful when using something other than a morotrcycle specific oil because automotive oils often contain friction modifiers like moly, graphite, or teflon. These kind of solid lubricants will plate out on the clucth discs and make them slip. Try changeing you're oil to a motorcycle specific oil and flush the crankcase a couple of times after a few short rides. It might get better.
 
It is a motorcycle specific oil and no modifiers for supposedly excellent performance for wet clutches.
 
Yeah my 08 450 slips alot worse after long rides. Just pushing it in first gear with clutch engaged it grabs. I bled the line etc. Wonder what's wrong I have tried a couple dif oils thinking that was the issue.
 
Is the question specifically for The Motorcycle Factory?

Would it be better in the 4st forum? :confused:
 
No idea, but I doubt it's related to the oil. I've been running the ARO (code for the moto specific 20-50) since new in my 09 510 with zero issues. What do you mean slips "coming out of first"?
 
I just noticed that this is a really old thread. In addition the person that started the thread has not logged in for many months.

I will assume that it has nothing to do with the TMI, and would make a better fit over in the 4st forum.

TMF -> 4st.
 
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