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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Airbox Woes

ebrake

ebrake

Husqvarna
A Class
Ok I feel like an idiot right now but I cannot, for the life of me, get the lower inboard airbox screw to catch.

Anyone have any tips?
 
A flexible screwdriver (one with a spring instead of a solid shaft) with 1/4" square end on it so I can put the proper torx socket on the end for that very screw is on my shopping list.

Tough screw to get at for sure.
 
Yea it's a straight up nightmare....I'm on day 2 of fighting with this godforsaken screw.
 
I replaced the factory torx screw with a philips head screw and that one catches much easier. Probably because i have better leverage on a long handled screwdriver than on a torx bit on a swivel shaft.
Or leave that screw out. If the other two screws are up tight, it there really that much chance of dust entering through that side of the cover? Happy to hear opinions on that.
 
hahah well i stumbled ass backwards in to a solution. Some how the little female clip that the screw goes into dissapeared itself. Probably fell in between my radiator and evap canister during my multiple removals of the airbox cover in an attmept to figure out why it would not catch.

So I pulled a clip from elsewhere and bam that bitch of a screw hooked up right away, go figure. Easy peezy lemon squeezy.


Now to begin the search for a replacement clip....cant be THAT difficult to find (those are always famous last words)
 
ebrake said:
Also you guys have torx screws on your airboxes? I have allen heads on mine ha
Click to expand...

Mine are Allen too.
I'm glad you caught this when you did...I had the exact same problem when I checked my air filter last. The little bugger of a clip was missing... I borrowed one from my side panel under my seat and added a nylon lock nut there for now.
I wish the air filter panel had something like these instead.

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