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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

oil being sprayed into airbox on 511

Ok no worries ! Does anyone else have experience in solving this oil shit on there BMW engine without spending shit load on it? Really f**ks me of tbh cause you'd think they would test the bike before selling it worldwide there are multiple obvious issues on mine from the first day I rode it!
 
All you really need is the zipty breather relocation kit which is around 40 dollars. The kit relocates the breather to the top of the motor where it belongs (it can be seen in the pic above post #22). That is all I am running as are several others and it is just fine. I run the factory specified 1150cc of oil and I haven't had any problems. I was running 950cc of oil before and I had oil coming out the airbox onto the top of my motor. You really do not need the whole catch can recovery system unless you are worried and want an absolute system.
 
Get a "Zipty" breather for the valve cover, If you use a breather tank you'll need to get a filler cap or drain plug from "Zipty" also that is tapped for a return fitting to return oil from that breather tank "if you use one" back into the motor. You'll have to have a return if you use the "Toxic Moto" breather tank. I have the BMW G450X Chassis and built my own baffled tank to do this. It works great. I designed my tank to return oil into the filler cap. It works great for me with no issues.

The design of the Husky's head pipe though and its proximity to the return hose into the filler cap with the "ZipTy" tanks, most guys are going to the Drain plug now for the return hose. As the hose has burned in some instances on the head pipes in the past.

Of course the whole point of doing this is to cap off the stock breather mounted on the cases behind the right side of the cylinder. It will help save the engines primary drive Torque limiter doing this as well. Another subject you may want to look up on here and one of the primary purposes of doing this. Get the breather off the cases and coming out of the valve cover. That's the main thing.

I do have both engines G450X and TC449 and I run them in the BMW frame. I have run a breather tank set up on both.
 
I wanted to get one of these breathers (& 2 other great looking items) sent over to me here in Aus.
Unfortunately ZTs freight is nearly 3 times what it should be at $157!! ($40 for a fender & decal kit earlier this year from US)
4 emails & messages as well, no closer.
They are 'looking at their freight', hope they resolve it soon as they seem to have great products.

I'll modify my own tappet cover & sort it out I guess.
 
The toxic kit shown on the site link shows something crucial if you look closely at the picture. Please note that the ZTR relocated breather on the valve cover is shown in the picture while the text says it uses the original crank vent location. So even though they say it works fine with the stock vent, it's obvious that they agree that relocating the breather to the top of the valve cover is best and reduces stress to the torque limiter which was the original idea by Tinken and ZipTy. Don't believe it, click on the accessories tab...nuff said. So to really work correctly it's more like $200+ for it to work correctly. I'd easily spend the extra $100 and enjoy the extra benefit that the ZTR tank cools and re-condenses the oil vapor.

YMMV, this is just the opinion of a satisfied customer. I think I need to fill a suitcase with ZTR goodies and take a trip to visit with you fine folks down under! :banana:
 
Huskynoobee said:
YMMV, this is just the opinion of a satisfied customer. I think I need to fill a suitcase with ZTR goodies and take a trip to visit with you fine folks down under! :banana:
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All that needs to happen is to put a little effort into the on-line shop, that's all.

I am quite sure the products are first-rate, & I'm sure everyone will agree.

For an on-line shopper, the web-store is the front counter of a walk-in shop.
If you get a grumpy parts sales person at a physical shop counter, you are less likely to go back to that shop.
It is the same with a web-store, a poor experience & having to plead for correct freight, wait a week for a response to an order & even having items delivered via a third-party is no way to deliver great service.
The whole point of putting items up on-line is to have them be able to 'sell themselves' to people who can't come to a physical shop & are to far away to phone & discuss sales.
If the store isn't monitored, or can't add correct freight or items aren't shipped out in a timely fashion the items loose their appeal.

Someone living in another country has no idea how huge the R&D w/shop is, or the volume of bikes they handle/parts sold locally etc.
All that potential customer sees is a page with items for sale, if there are hard to get they will shop elsewhere, simple.



I really do hope they can capitalise on the sponsorship dollars they put in here on this on-line forum with a great on-line shop.

## (Please note - Before ANYONE starts on me, I'm not bashing ZT, I am putting up a web-store user's perspective of mine & other's experiences trying to buy items in the hope it will improve.
I am not alone in my experiences here)
 
Nah yer right, great products, just the freight needs attention, I'd think it's a preset postal programme that just needs tweaked .
Slavens sends ktm stuff internationally for circa $30.

I used to sell G2 throttle products on my site and they went good but had to pay out lots to stock them.

A good importer in oz for these guys would be good.
 
Another potential substitute is the "oil separator" that comes on XR650L Hondas..'tis a little plastic canister that fits between the oil breather and the airbox to help blowby oil stay out of the air filter box. Im about to hook mine back up as the prior owner removed it in place of a longer hose with filter on the end.....which aint doing the trick very well.

They've been installing these since at least the early '90s so they arent hard to come by. Worth a try.
 
So with that KN breather filter which one fits best? I eventually want to get the ZTR kit but don't have the cash yet and I don't want oil in my air box anymore. I even get oil coming out just from laying the bike down.
 
nozzzaa said:
has anyone else come across this issue, had my bike serviced three times now by three different husky dealers all claiming that the last dealer prob put too much or too little oil or whatever, just no matter what I seem to do or what level the oil is at I seem to get oil dripping out the airbox,

pisses me off cause it makes my bike and engine look dirty as hell!!

anyone know the issue and fix for this as ive stripped it to clean it and would love it if she stayed clean for more than five minutes!!
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nozzzaa I now have the full zip-ty oil kit but did run a 900mm length hose with a air filter at the end then blocked off the air box. I was then able to run 1100ml of oil with out any issues.
 
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