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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Fuel Treatment

According to the MSDS, Startron is identical to Stabil. I buy whichever of the two is on sale.
 
I got lucky last year while shopping at Home Depot. They had startron on the shelf for $3. It had a yellow price tag. When they rung it up, they cost 1¢. I went back and grabbed all 36 bottles for a grand total of 36¢. One of the best deals ever. Walmart sells it for $7-8 a bottle. Startron states that you can't overdose your gas with it. I used to use stabil until this deal. :)
 
Autozone has been having it on sale along with Chevron Tectron which I used in my cars and Kbikes. Few weeks is was buy one get one free.
 
I like the blue marine formula of Sta-Bil. It is designed specifically for the ethanol gasoline out here in California.
 
I like the blue marine formula too and for the time being we can still buy it in California. But it will be discontinued for California unfortunately.

Seafoam used to be a good product, but it as since changed and now contains mostly mineral oil (baby oil), mineral spirits (paint thinner) and alcohol. Seafoam is not a product that should be mixed with gasoline containing ethanol. Here is a list of additives that contain alcohol and should be avoided: http://www.fuel-testers.com/is_gas_additive_safe_with_e10_list.html
 
Don't need it in Oz. Can get 95 and 98 at all pumps sans ethanol. Only have 91 with ethanol and some obscure 94 with ethanol but not common.
Ethanol is causing grief to Ducatis with plastic tanks. It is making them swell inside the trellis frame and crack. Ethanol is a joke imho.
 
I took the info from this thread and bought the blue marine Stabil. Best thing I have done in ages for the bikes!

My 510 would get about 3/4 of a tank of fresh 91 pump gas to fill it up before a ride. Even with a tank mostly of fresh gas it would sometimes stubble and would take more time to start out on the trail. I sometimes pack some fuel bottles of fresh gas and the bike always runs and starts better after burring off some of the tank and filling it back up from the fresh bottles.

The last ride I topped of the 510 and gave it a 1/4 oz of the Stabil. I filled a 2 gallon gas can and gave it a 1/4 oz of Stabil and filled the fuel bottles from it for the ride. The 510 ran and started like it should all day. No pops, no stumbles, easy starting in the trail hang ups.

I am sold on the Stabil. I imagine I will go lighter on the mixture as Tinkin does, but I will be running it in the bikes from here on out.
 
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