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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Ethanol mix in husky te250

S

sidquick

Husqvarna
B Class
G'day Boy's was just wondering your thoughts on running the 10% ethanol mix in your huskys we have down hear. Only concerned about all the efi pump etc. I run it in all my carbd four strokes because its about 8 cents cheaper its rated at 100 RON it keeps everything clean and i get beter milage. (wouldnt mind makin my own still and runing on 100 % ethanol at say 80>90 proof with some old hondas iv got lieing around very cheap form of transport and keep the environmentalists somewhat happy). I know for a fact you cant run it in RM's or Kx's because it eats the crank seals :eek: next time I rebuild them I'm going to enquire at the local skf mob for seals that can.

also what RON are these bikes rated at 95 like most mx's?

your thoughts? (dont real want to turn my efi system into a somewhat rubbery soup lol)

cheers sid
 
Can't help with the ethonol question, however re fuel it is better to run 98 if you can get it. That said I have had to use 95 on occassion and have not detected any difference in performance on the trail-might be different for an A grade MXer however. The engines are reasonably high compression and do need higher octane fuel otherwise they run the risk of knocking especially if you are lugging etc.
 
Out here in California, we end up running 91 octane ethanol blend in everything that has to take premium grade fuel. Regular gas is 87 ethanol. I don't know what the percentage of ethanol is in our fuel.:excuseme:
 
Nice.
Down here standard fuel is 91 octane pure petrol, 95 is premium which is recomeneded for my 2 stroke mxs according to the book, then 98 is supper which I run in my vintages and the E10 (10% ethanol) is 100 octane which I run in my cars boats and XL's and XT's.

cheers sid
 
The measures used to determine octane rating varies around the world.

"Because of the 8 to 10 point difference noted above, the octane rating shown in the United States is 4 to 5 points lower than the rating shown elsewhere in the world for the same fuel. See the table in the following section for a comparison."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating
 
Ethanol is getting real common here too- but you can buy 'normal' premium gas in 93 octane yet most places-

I try to run Turbo Blue (115 RON, 110 R&M ) at a ratio of 1:4 with premium just to boost the octane a bit- seams to run smoother or cleaner in general...
 
I run premium pump gas, 91 octane, 10% ethanol because that's all there is here. Very few places still have gas with no ethanol. I do not own a EFI bike though.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top