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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1978 DT125E Electrical Issues

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coleman1495

Husqvarna
A Class
I am hoping you guys can give me some help with fixing a 1978 DT125E. This bike is my Dad's and has had electrical issues for a while now. These bikes have super simple electrical systems

For starters the battery is NFG. I dont think it has had a working battery for ages. The bike will of course run without a battery (has kick start) so it was never fixed.

The rectifier on it continually keeps frying. It literally melts. It has done this on a few different rectifiers. The headlights also burn out on a regular basis. Lately the bike does not run properly. It wants to die when you try and rev it. It feels like its not getting spark.

I think that if I change the rectifier (and likely the battery) the bike will run like normal. The big question is what would cause the rectifier to continually burn out?

Thanks in advance. I would love to get this old girl running for summer riding season.
 
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