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Maybe someone can make you a new oil filter lid for banjo connections to divert the oil to a cooler before it reenters to the engine. But it seems like an expensive and unnecessary thing to do as the oil can be chosen to stand the whatever temperature you get. Personally I'd be more interested in an electric oil heater for winter use when the bike is transported on the trailer.
Check this link.
Joe Racer claims his device drops the temperature by 30 degrees (Farenheit, I guess).
Grok's Berg is the only one with such a device that I know of.
Hall of fame or hall of shame? Jury's still out. One thing is for sure, it increases the quantity of oil in the system and it can only increase its life in your engine.
Joe Racer claims his device drops the temperature by 30 degrees (Farenheit, I guess).
Grok's Berg is the only one with such a device that I know of.
Hall of fame or hall of shame? Jury's still out. One thing is for sure, it increases the quantity of oil in the system and it can only increase its life in your engine.
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JBS Racing also produces an oil cooler kit for the Husaberg. Ours is intended to be used on a Sidecar where there is a fair bit of space to fit a radiator. This may not be so practical on a solo but we can give anybody that is interested dimensions etc. Our kit uses an oil adaptor that has brass male-male connectors wound into it and hose connections made by a re-makeable ball-end and taper seat joints. Notice in the photo the oil hoses have a gentle sweep not a sharp corner or worse still a banjo.
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Wow, great minds think alike. :lol:
If I had the lid I'd connect a KTM LC4 fine filter to the lines instead of the cooler.
If I had the lid I'd connect a KTM LC4 fine filter to the lines instead of the cooler.
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Smorgasbord - On my personal Sidecar I run a screw on type filter. It is bigger has more filter area and is easier to change. Just as an aside we have found that running an oil cooler really helps with engine life in Sidecar. An unexpected advantage came when we installed one we found the failure rate on the ignition dropped. We also vented the ignition cover to help with this as it was a persistant problem in Sidecar. You are probably right in cold climbs it may offer only a small improvement. We have also run a thermostat with it in the winter to heat the oil up faster as oil that is too cold is as bad as oil that is too hot. The external filter thing is a good idea.
LeFrog - PM or ben.ballard@jbsracing if you please.
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LeFrog - PM or ben.ballard@jbsracing if you please.
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Maybe on the sidecars the heavier engine load heats things up another notch.
The desert rallies comes to mind, with stages longer than the nominal Husaberg service interval. Day after day after day... Some extra cooling as well as oil volume would surely be very desireable for these racers. The newer LC4 with the spin-on filter keeps oil in the frame, as the old Yamaha XT500 did, an integral oil tank and cooler in a way, both are supposed to be very reliable. Considering that, a cooler might not be such a bad idea after all. Think of all the money you save on SEMs and the added reliability and then the longer oil change interval as well. Add the old style LC4 fine filter to the lines, it would likely add to reliability even further. Or if you can get an adapter for the spin-ons.
The KTM 58038005100 filter in the Husaberg engines, while better than nothing, is it anything else but a coarse filter anyway?
One poosible place to put a cooler:http://www.kedo.com/ page 41 in the catalog. The straps holding the oil cooler are probably battery straps made of rubber.
I do not like the type of marketing seen in http://www.joeracerproducts.com/ktm-oilcooler.php as it implies that the RFS engine is more or less useless unless you get this or that product. The stock RFS is a very fine engine, just consider its heritage just for one thing!
The desert rallies comes to mind, with stages longer than the nominal Husaberg service interval. Day after day after day... Some extra cooling as well as oil volume would surely be very desireable for these racers. The newer LC4 with the spin-on filter keeps oil in the frame, as the old Yamaha XT500 did, an integral oil tank and cooler in a way, both are supposed to be very reliable. Considering that, a cooler might not be such a bad idea after all. Think of all the money you save on SEMs and the added reliability and then the longer oil change interval as well. Add the old style LC4 fine filter to the lines, it would likely add to reliability even further. Or if you can get an adapter for the spin-ons.
The KTM 58038005100 filter in the Husaberg engines, while better than nothing, is it anything else but a coarse filter anyway?
One poosible place to put a cooler:http://www.kedo.com/ page 41 in the catalog. The straps holding the oil cooler are probably battery straps made of rubber.
I do not like the type of marketing seen in http://www.joeracerproducts.com/ktm-oilcooler.php as it implies that the RFS engine is more or less useless unless you get this or that product. The stock RFS is a very fine engine, just consider its heritage just for one thing!
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I made a similar system for my bike.
Filter cover that still allowed use of stock Husaberg filter if desired,
3/8" oil lines and smooth radius bend fittings,
3800 canister filter mounted in front of the engine.
Added another liter of oil and noticably cooled it on road use.
The filter cover adapter is about 3 hours machine work for a one off.
The flter canister adapter plate took a lot of hours but could be made in about 2 hrs of machine shop time. Mass production would reduce these times. I'll see if I can post pictures.
Any suggestions?
Steve
Filter cover that still allowed use of stock Husaberg filter if desired,
3/8" oil lines and smooth radius bend fittings,
3800 canister filter mounted in front of the engine.
Added another liter of oil and noticably cooled it on road use.
The filter cover adapter is about 3 hours machine work for a one off.
The flter canister adapter plate took a lot of hours but could be made in about 2 hrs of machine shop time. Mass production would reduce these times. I'll see if I can post pictures.
Any suggestions?
Steve
So far so good, I haven't been out much this year I had a big house move to deal with.tuts said:
The oil pump has no real difficulty getting oil to the head and you can see the resevoirs are only bit higher.
Only downside so far?
Oil changes are a bit more time consuming, but aren't needed as often for recreational use. :wink:
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