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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

screen behind air filter

Am I the only one who uses the K& N air filter made specifically for our Husky bikes? Is there a problem I wasn't aware of when I bought it a year ago that no one else is using it? I know for a fact it lets in more air because I had to richen up my mapping on my PCIII right after installing it - I had Twin Air in prior to that. I tossed the backfire screen because the K&N won't melt like foam will, and have had no problems.
 
MChammer;106536 said:
Am I the only one who uses the K& N air filter made specifically for our Husky bikes? Is there a problem I wasn't aware of when I bought it a year ago that no one else is using it? I know for a fact it lets in more air because I had to richen up my mapping on my PCIII right after installing it - I had Twin Air in prior to that. I tossed the backfire screen because the K&N won't melt like foam will, and have had no problems.
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This will be debated, but numerous engineering studies on oiled gauze versus oiled foam have shown that K&N's filters pass more air... and without fail... LOTS more particles. Same for automotive applications. I'm not willing to risk the detrimental effects to my engine for a 1-3% (maybe) gain in power.
 
I used K&N on a '84 XR350 years ago and a few cars/trucks, and never had dirt problems thru the filter itself when properly oiled.........BUT......I did have problems with the dang rubber seal shrinking, getting hard and seal breaking loose.
Some riding buddies had same issue on their bikes. We had to warm the K&N filter good, grease the rim, then set it in place place before it cooled to get a good seal.
I switched over to Twin Air on all my bikes.

K&N flat panel ones seem fine and I do still have an oval shaped K&N on my son's car that's been ok, but we watch it close and I have quit buying K&N for anything I own.
 
i think part of the problem with the k&n filters is that it can be difficult to get them oiled properly. from what i understand if it is oiled properly they work just fine. but there's alot of room for error in that particular step.
 
Oiling them is easy, thats not the problem it's just they will let dirt pass thru and water also. The pleats act as a sifter dirt just shakes thru them.
Take a dry one and hold it up to the light can see right thru it oiling only plugs the tiny holes then dirt soaks up the oil like K&N says they work better dirty so best to brush off the dirt and re oil? Stick with foam and old school filter oil.
Later George
 
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