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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE310 Oil

Mike-AK

Mike-AK

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I just purchased a 2012 TE310 after being away from riding for 30 years (last bike was a 1979 250 OR). I notice in the manual they recommend Castrol 10W50, but I'm an Amsoil guy and would like to run Amsoil in my new Husky. Problem is, Amsoil does not make a 10W50. They make a 20W50, but I am in Alaska, so I'm concerned a 20W50 would be too thick. Amsoil makes a 10W40 though. Is anybody running this oil in a TE310? Thanks.
 
Is anyone running Amsoil 20W50 synthetic in their TE310? Would using a 20W50 vs a 10W50 cause any startup wear issues at normal riding temperatures (50 degrees and up)?
 
Looks like it is bye bye Amsoil. I used to run Bel-Ray MC1 in my '79 250 OR. Maybe I'll try their synthetic 10W50 in the TE 310.
 
The 310 is quite hard on its oil and doesn't hold a lot... We use the Castrol fully synthetic 10w50 or the Motul Factoryline 300v 15w50. The official recommendation is the Castrol, Motul used to be used by our race team with good results too.


Dave
 
Dont worry about the manufacturers preferred brand its a financial tie up. Husky used to be Agip.
get a quality semi syn ie Motul 10 50 and ride. change every 400/500kms (do the oil filter every second oil change). If you buy an expensive full syn like the Motorex top stuff you can eak out another 100 kms or so. The difference is not so much the oil itself rather the quality of ingredience. I find with regular changing the bikes never really test the longevity of the oil and its addative package-nor do I want to.
 
I also figured 946ml is close enough to 900ml, so I dumped in the whole quart when I changed it yesterday. With the bike vertical the oil comes up almost to the top of the window with the engine off, and about half way up with it running. BTW, removing the hose from the drain plug makes it much easier to reinstall without cross-threading. It's a bit tight getting the hose back on, but I just grabbed it with needle nose pliers and wiggled it back on. I'm going to put some shrink tubing over the protective loom next time to keep it out of the way of the bolt head and to keep it from fraying.
 
Tinken said:
What you need is an additional hole in your crankcase for just the oil drain.
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True, but not something within the scope of my capabilities. It would be nice to have a magnetic drain plug. The filter won't fit in the housing correctly with a washer type magnet installed.
 
street2dirt said:
Speaking of magnetics, for the oil filter magnet, is 3/4" the correct size? I'm ordering one from Moose.
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Can't recall, but tt would be the same one for the Honda 450. When I tried to install one on the grommet end of the filter, it would not allow the filter to engage far enough on the oil filter cover nipple. I didn't try the back, though. Perhaps the belleville washer has enough flex to allow for the extra thickness?
 
On the notes of oil in the 310 I'm running motorex power synth 10w50 but can't find the specs for it. Any guidance?
Also noticed penrite is now making motorcycle oils and its Aussie and readily available and cheaper here to. What would be the oil to use from them?
www.penriteoil.com.au
Cheers and sorry for the hijack, just didn't want another oil thread haha
 
@Mike - we normally carry a fill plug that has a huge magnent on it, but it's getting redesigned. Ty complained it wasn't "sexy" enough.. Haha :thinking:
 
I am doing my first oil change on my 2012 Te310 I have some motorex cross power fully synthetic 4T 10W/50. will that work in the TE310?

Thanks
-Huskman
 
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