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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

fluidyne radiators

J

JimiB

Husqvarna
just bought a bike from Tasky's
2010 te 450 ... bunch of after market stuff already on the bike from 7602 racing to ziptie racing
bike is from Oregon ( the owner took very good care of it) no dirt and the bike shows it..
Problem is it has a Fluidyne radiator on the right side with a oil cooler mounted behind it .
left side has the stock radiator.
went for a ride yesterday and a flipping rock off the front tire was delivered to the only spot it could damage .. Yep bottom edge of the fluidyne lol .. well she's in the garage dripping nothing big will be fixed ... Just wondering if anyone is using fluidyne radiators ..
1. how you like them?
2. is it worth the coin ? I'm thinking about the left side
3. is it just me or do the factory radiators look stronger ?

thanks for any input

Jimi
 
Stick with stock radiators unless you ride mostly in vey hot conditions and your bike is overheating.

I put a pair of Fluidynes on my Honda XR650R.
The fluidynes were well made, fitted well and had a 25% cooland capacity increase over stock.
I put them on my 650R because in the hot summer months the bike would overheat if ridden constantly under 25km/h. The 650R was designed to run wild and free.
Problem was that in the colder months the bike would run in the 70 - 79 degree temperature range whereas the recomended range is 85 - 92 degrees. Bad for the motor to run it out of the recemended temperature range.
That will possibly explain why you bike only had 1 fluiddyne - cause I think one is the happy medium - especial on a 450.
 
The oil cooler adds some volume to your oil supply, which is good. My 2010 TE450 has never overheated in 4000 miles, I even had to make some rad covers so that the bike can get up to operating temps, I was getting less than 40 MPG and it was the ECU running the bike with too much gas thinking the bike was cold and needed choke!
 
I have a 2008 TE450. I live in Canada, and ride in a HUGE range of temperatures (-10C to +40C). I am looking into the following mods on my trust TE:
1) set of Fluidyne rads
2) Fluidyne oil cooler on left rad
3) stock fan on right rad
4) plumb in a thermostat from a TE610/630 to ensure engine reaches optimum operating temp in cooler weather, yet can cool efficiently in hotter days...
5) mount an oil temp and coolant temp gauge where convenient...

Anyone have any advice/experience on the thermostat route with these bikes?
 
im running my fluidyne rads, mine right side popped a leak just a few weeks ago and i mailed it back to fluidyne to fix it...no news back yet..the big diff is the end caps are larger and there are twice as many cores in the vertical stacks..you can see the diff in the fin sizes between cores.,

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Those new radiators look nice ... But I have beat 4 stock radiators ( off 2 different bikes) up very well, with and without guards, and zero leaks ... I did add a high performance water pump and it helped the cooling of the bike a great deal ...

No fan, no real catch can ... I just try not to go too slow .... And pay attention to not idling the bike on the tight trails ...
 
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