• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Do I need a 10/60 oil?

C

chuz

Husqvarna
Hi all,
I have a 2009 TE250 (uk). I currently run on Putoline 10/60, the manual says Agip 10/60. But now Husky recommend Castrol oil. I looked at Castrol and they dont do a bike 10/60. I mailed Husky Uk and got no reply. So not too fussed on make of oil. but do i need 10/60 or is a 10/40 fine, it really opens up the buying options. What do you all run.
Cheers
 
The age old oil debate! Ask 10 people get 10 answers. I run Motorex 10-60 in my 07 TE 450. But that is only cause i bought a couple cases when i got the bike new. When it runs out ill be switching to something easier to find at my local dealer.
 
Mate I run Motul 5100 semi have done for 5 years and 3 huskies. According to the season I use 10/40 or 10/50. Husky dealer knows what I use and he has always said fine. I use Motul as it is an excellent mid priced oil. I change oil every 3rd ride and oil filter every second oil change.
There are better Motol oils (more expensive) and other brands too, however as the engine, gearbox and clutch share the same oil I figure regular changes are a good thing and the frequency of change does not bring out the more enduring qualities of the expensive brands. If Motul is not handy I am happy with Maxima and Bel Ray or Motorex. I know in the US some of the guys are having great success with specialized (and inexpensive) deisel oil.
For may of us it is the regularity of change more than brand or ratings.
 
I use Rock Oil TRM synthetic oil 20/60w. As this is a british brand you should be able to get hold of it easily. Stick with your putoline. Nothing wrong with that.
 
I needed oil for my Husky and Duc. Found a decent deal on Elf Moto 4 10W-60 syn. so bought the case of 18. Right at $8 a liter. Cool pour spout to boot. Grabbed a case of 10W-50 for the 999 so killed 2 birds with one shipment. Eurosyntheticoils is the website. Got it in one day!
 
i have been using in both of my 250 bikes motul 15/50 full sythetic 300v.good results so far after many hard miles .i would recommend it .dan
 
chuz;139286 said:
Hi all,
I have a 2009 TE250 (uk). I currently run on Putoline 10/60, the manual says Agip 10/60. But now Husky recommend Castrol oil. I looked at Castrol and they dont do a bike 10/60. I mailed Husky Uk and got no reply. So not too fussed on make of oil. but do i need 10/60 or is a 10/40 fine, it really opens up the buying options. What do you all run.
Cheers
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Hi Chuz,

The factory fill on the 09s was 10w60 Agip and at the time in the UK we recommended the Agip or the Motorex 10w60. Since the change to Castrol as factory fill the recommendation for your bike hasn't changed as there were no TE250s with your engine series (pre x light) produced so technically 10w60 remains the official recommendation. For the larger capacity bikes with your engine style (310/450/510) the recommended oil was changed to the Castrol Power 1 10w50 so you could run that without issue.

In general I'd stick with 10/50 or 10/60, the factory recommend 10/40 in the new 449 but have still stuck with the heavier oil in the smaller bikes for a reason.

When you say you mailed Husky UK, can you let me know by which method you mailed us? All the website enquiries come to me but I can't find an oil question in recent times so I'm wondering if my spam filter is being a bit too keen in operation!



Thanks..Dave
 
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