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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Castrol Power RS Racing 4T

Travis Shrey

Travis Shrey

Husqvarna
A Class
Anyone ever use this oil? I did on my last oil change, made for motorcycles and wet clutches. Now when I whack the throttle open in 3rd or 4th gear the damn clutch slips. Are motorcycle oils really that different?
 
Travis Shrey said:
Anyone ever use this oil? I did on my last oil change, made for motorcycles and wet clutches. Now when I whack the throttle open in 3rd or 4th gear the damn clutch slips. Are motorcycle oils really that different?
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My TE510, SM630, and TE 630 came with that oil out the box and I have done a few oil changes on all three bikes with the same oil. bikes run great with no issues
 
Yeah, starting to think something else is up. My ride into work this morning I couldn't get the clutch to slip. I never had the clutch actuator rod replaced, maybe it was partially hanging up yesterday and not fully retracting? I guess I should add that to my to do list.
 
Travis Shrey said:
Yeah, starting to think something else is up. My ride into work this morning I couldn't get the clutch to slip. I never had the clutch actuator rod replaced, maybe it was partially hanging up yesterday and not fully retracting? I guess I should add that to my to do list.
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Dunno what oil you were previously using and what it' s viscosity etc was- but maybe it was sufficiently different and that the hydraulic clutch was set for that oil, is that possible ?
 
HuskyBrutha said:
Dunno what oil you were previously using and what it' s viscosity etc was- but maybe it was sufficiently different and that the hydraulic clutch was set for that oil, is that possible ?
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I did the oil last oil change, don't even remember what oil I used. Definitely didn't adjust anything for it.
 
Amsoil 20-50 Synthetic Motorcycle oil. Best there is. :thumbsup:

A motorcycle-specific oil does not have friction modifiers so as to be wet-clutch compatible - JASO rating.
There is certainly nothing wrong with Castrol Racing 4T, however they are forumulated with group III base stocks whereas the premiums are Group IV PAO base stock. It has been argued that group III based lubricants are not a true synthetic. They are not allowed to be advertised as synthetics in Europe, but in the US they are.

Good reading here: www.bobistheoilguy.com

Sorry, it's another 'oil thread'. :D
 
Turns out it wasn't the oil. I have an adjustable clutch lever on my bike that I set up so that I didn't need a full pull for the clutch to be totally disengaged. I made the adjustment when it was a high of 50 outside, now the temps are in the 80s. That tiny bit of expansion must have been enough to let it slip a little. Backed out the adjustment a little bit and the thing is back to rippin'.
 
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