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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'13 TE449 Questions

Might as well chime in here. I ordered a 1 1/8" quite insert for the PC4, but they were on long back order and FMF cancelled my order. So, I welded up a baffle for my Power Core 4. I attached it to the 1 3/8" "quiet" insert that I originally purchased with my PC4. I basically kinda followed the post I found on this site. I welded 4 fender washers cut in half onto a steel bar, each one attached 90 degrees from the next.

It worked okay, didn't take much power away and at least I didn't feel like an open pipe Harley rider when putting around town.

Then last week FMF called me and told me that the 1 1/8" insert was back in stock. I bought it despite having a working baffle, just for comparison sake, and figured that they knew what they were doing. And I have to say it's quite a bit more quiet than the 1 3/8" insert. It is shaped different too. The 1 3/8" insert is pretty much a straight-through pipe with a conical screen spark arrestor attached inside of it. Whereas the 1 1/8" has a tapered tube that starts large and tapers down to the outlet. It has a conical screen attached to the inside end, and a single circular baffle plate with lots of little holes drilled into it right at the inside end of the tube.

The outlet opening on the 1 1/8" is tiny and it took me a while to get the allen screw started because I couldn't fit my fingers in there.

Also, the last time I had the can off, I packed it kind of loosely with stainless steel ebay packing.
 
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