early berg lubrication system

Hey scrap,

If it's eating conrods there's something else going wrong.

The concern about the early lubrication system (which was changed 96 I think?) was more to do with valve train lubrication.

All the best,
Simon

Re: RE: early berg lubrication system

Simon said:

Hey scrap,

If it's eating conrods there's something else going wrong.

The concern about the early lubrication system (which was changed 96 I think?) was more to do with valve train lubrication.

All the best,
Simon

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Only 01-03 models has pressure lubricated top end.Before and after it´s just splash fed by the timing chain.

My two cents on this topic,

Scrap, you are absolutely right about the lubrication system on the early bergs.

That's why running a good quality oil is of the highest importance.

Also, the earlier engines used oil, in a typical desert race of 80 miles, my 94 would use about 20-30% of it's oil depending on how much I had to rev it. That fact alone is why a lot of berg engines failed, low oil level. This happened with Chuck Sun and a few other guys running the Vegas to Reno race here in the states, 520 miles, they never checked the oil level and they ran it out of oil.

Another factor in the earlier berg engine life was that if one lugged the bike for long periods of time, this resulted in less oil passing through the crank area. This had a particularly high degree of impact on the wrist pin bearing. For a while the wrist pins were coming with a Titanium Nitride coating on them. This was harder than the piston and the bronze bushing in the small end of the rod and promoted high wear there causing piston rocking, which made for poor starting of the motor. But the main culprit there was lugging the motor too much.

I put quite a few hours on my old 94 wth no bottom end problems.

scrapveiw said:

Q has anyone had a duff reed valve ,if so what effect did it have ? i am guessing at lots of blue smoke?

regards

scrap

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Exactly

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Fourstrokeforce said:

Only 01-03 models has pressure lubricated top end.Before and after it´s just splash fed by the timing chain.

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Husaberg added an oil pump to the earlier engines in the latter years of production. I believe they did it in 1996 but I may be mistaken exactly which year.

If you don't believe me, then check out the 1999 workshop manual in the downloads section - it covers, without doubt the oil pump. It was certainly there then... :wink:

Cheers,
Simon

The "Orbit oil pump" was added in 1997.

Orbit pump added in 97 merely pushes the oil through a proper paper filter so metal particals are removed. Pre 97 Screen was fed by clutch basket gear oil spray, and would let a small fly buzz through it. Lubrication of the motor is still the same. 01 added crank end feed full pressure lubrication.
dan