• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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large amounts of oil in air box te 510

510te

510te

Husqvarna
AA Class
every time i clean my air filter i find a lot of oil pooled in front of the filter.. bike has 600 ks on it.. whats goin on there?? any one else have the same prob??:thumbsdown:
 
rocker breather hose goes back to air box, very common to have a pool of oil in there. especially if laid over on RHS .. there is a modified hose thread for this.. i am going to do mine..eventually... dont worry about it !
 
True. I'm not sure why they have the vent located right next to the oil slinger, ( top end lubing ? ) but it just seems to pump oil out the vent. With the EFI and a lay over to the right, I think it might just pump itself dry.

Also, extended highway rides tend to blow a lot of oil out the vent.
 
My 07 450 does the same thing. Get it overfilled the tiniest bit and it will push oil out the tube and into the air box. Next thing ya know, it's all over the shock and swing arm. The first time it happened, I thought I blew my shock.:eek: Also, a whole bunch can run out when the bike is dropped on the right side, especially if the bike ends up with the handlebars lower than the wheels, like if it were dumped on a hillside. I only had a quart of oil left in the motor after one hillside tumble and the bike smoked like a loaded up two stroke for a couple minutes on the restart.:doh: I have decided to carry some extra motor oil with me at least in the truck, when I go out for a day in the dirt. Husqvarna should do like some of the Japanese street models and have a reed valve vent.
 
It is frightening when you first become aware but its normal operating proceedure for huskies. Just keep an eye on your oil level.
 
Have had the breather puking oil after lots of whoops as well. F2G and I both have had this occur at a local riding area when working on some "air". Nothing harmed at all......so far ;). I bet this bike would run fine with only a quart remaining; at least enough to get you back to the mothership.
 
must be a decent sollution to it...i think putting a filter on the end would just clog up so if the oil is gonna come out it might as well just leave the bike instead of going through the throttle body cause that cant be good...
 
If oil is blowing out of the hose into the filter area, don't you need to keep re- filling to the proper fill height? Assuming you didn't overfill to begin with of course.

How can you be sure and maintain proper oil level on say an '07 te510(I know about the improperly located check hole)? My concern is filling to the proper level and then losing oil out the hose.

PS: I swear I found procedures (possibly pic's or video) of how to properly change your oil, where filters are located, etc. on this site. I'm still searching-- can anybody point me in the right direction?

EDIT: Here is where I found step by step pictures for an oil change: http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=601208&page=2&highlight=2007+te510
 
just checked....1400mls.. ... ye almost had me there ****************************************
Click to expand...

The manual shows 1.8 us quarts (1.5 imp) when the filter is replaced, or 1.6 us quarts (1.3 imperial) when just replacing the oil. This is off of PDF page 44, or page A.28 based on their page numbers.

1.8 quarts is 1700 ml, while 1.6 quarts is 1500 ml.
For imperial numbers it's 1400 ml or 1200 ml.

You guy's are both in Australia-- I would think your units of measurement would be the same?

PS: Part of the reason I posted this was to have proper oil levels archived for my own selfish reasons:)
Also for archiving purposes..... PDF page 154 (D.50) of the shop manual covers oil change steps.
 
now im confused!!! so i live in australia so how much oil do i put in with a filter change???
 
IIRC Husky increase the capacity from 1.6 to 1.8 US qts in model year 2006. I use a measuring cup and have never had a problem. Rocking the bike from side to side get more out of the sump, leaning to the right does the same for the oil filter. I'm running 1.8 US qts on my 07 w/o any problems. Those who aren't rocking the bike back and forth with the sump plug out may be inadvertantly overfilling a bit.

I terminated the valve cover hose into a very small filter under the right side plastics. Its gets weepy in the area but never runs any oil. The central area of the hose is somewhat lower and acts as a oil trap. Downhill sections should run it back into the valve train.

Anybody running a PCV valve or adapted a reed valve as mimi suggests?
 
oil in airbox

This should be good for a chuckle...

during a recent trip to the sand dunes...the bike and I had a little difference of opinion, it went one way and I went the other (funny on how the bike is always right). This left my 08 TE450 facing front wheel down a steep dune on the right hand side. Meh...I think...it's just sand...so I pick it up and off I go...4 miles later...my buddy stops me and shows me the oil on my swingarm. Now this isn't "normal" oil :excuseme: it's greenish blue...and since I had the shop do it, we couldn't figure out where this fluid had come from; until I read some posts.:applause:
 
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