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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Filling from a Jerry Can

Ogre_fl

Ogre_fl

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Is there a trick, can you tell when it’s getting close?

I put fuel in my Terra for the first time today at a gas pump and managed to spray a bit of gas.
The filler is funky; I have to say don’t really care for it.
I worry about how bad using Jerry cans will be.

I live in the boonies and my work is another 15 miles past the boonies so I fill my bikes from jerry cans often.
 
Ogre_fl said:
Is there a trick, can you tell when it’s getting close?

I put fuel in my Terra for the first time today at a gas pump and managed to spray a bit of gas.
The filler is funky; I have to say don’t really care for it.
I worry about how bad using Jerry cans will be.

I live in the boonies and my work is another 15 miles past the boonies so I fill my bikes from jerry cans often.
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When I first got my Strada I thought there was no way the filler would work at the pump. I was surprised at how much success I've had. I just shove the nozzle in as far as it goes and fill away. I've never had an issue in the roughly 30 fillups I've done. If you have a pump with a broken nozzle, or you don't shove it in all the way I could see it not working in a bad way. To mitigate that risk, I make a habit of resetting my fuel consumption after every fillup. Before each fillup I make a note of how much it's going to need and I slow down the flow just before that and watch and listen carefully. It's turned out to be one of my very favorite motorcycle fill ups.

I too would like to hear jerry can / fuel bottle etc. thoughts from folks that have used them.
 
Only way is to hear it filling.


I use one of these, if I fill at home...can't believe how much easier it makes life.:busted:
Even on my lawn mower...never spill gas again.
When you hear it getting close... just lift up the gas can and it shuts off.
Easy Peasy :banana:


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HuskyDude said:
Only way is to hear it filling.


I use one of these, if I fill at home...can't believe how much easier it makes life.:busted:
Even on my lawn mower...never spill gas again.
When you hear it getting close... just lift up the gas can and it shuts off.
Easy Peasy :banana:


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Until they start to stick!:thumbsdown:
 
It's mostly quiet here, but the crickets can get really loud.

OK, good to know that you can hear it getting close.
I did not notice it at the gas station.
It was just suddenly full and less than 3 gals so it caught me off guard.
I was expecting to put in a bit over 3 as I had ridden about 10 miles with the light on.

Husky Dude, do you guys in BC have ethanol fuel?
I know it plays havoc on some plastics and causes them to swell, perhaps thats why Dirtdame's valve thingy bound up.
 
While it would be nice if the filler neck was a bit larger in diameter, I really cannot say I've had actual problems. It helps to turn the nozzle upside down to get the nozzle in a bit farther.

I've been able to hear when it gets close to full... both at the pump and when filling with a can.
 
I will try fliping the handle up side down next time.
I tried a few differnt angles but it just didn't seem to like it was in there very far.
I have to admit I was a bit anxious on my first fill up.
I was watching the pump and just getting ready to "back off" a bit when it shut off and sprayed (or sprayed & shut off)

Oh, another question.
Is your gas caps slightly turned counter clockwise from being straight with the line of the bike?
 
Ogre_fl said:
Is your gas caps slightly turned counter clockwise from being straight with the line of the bike?
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Mine is like that. On the last fill up I noticed I can put the cap back on oriented in a straight manner and still lock it and take the key out. Because of the way you turn the key, I think, it becomes natural to rotate the cap, too. But, it seems you can go against the natural action and get the cap lined up.
 
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