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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

411. TE battery to seat problem.

XLEnduroMan

XLEnduroMan

Heroes Ride Huskys. The others follow.
I went to remove my seat last night and it seamed stuck. It just wouldn't go. I finally got it but I was bummed at what I saw. There was a small hole in the top front of my battery, about an 1/8 x 1/4 inch. That piece was basically welded to the under side of my seat. :eek: The rubber pad on the seat pan pushes down on the battery from it's top. The top front of the battery makes plastic to plastic contact and this is not good. I imagine/hope warranty will cover it. I see something needs to be put in that space between the seat and battery. A small piece of an old inner tube, some thin a/c sealing foam tape, something that is thin and will stop the plastic to plastic contact. I think I will cut an old tube and sleeve it over the entire battery as the back and bottom of the battery have contact with the fender. That and some tip-ties should be good.

I just called Batteries Plus. Their brand is $75.99, Yuasa is $89.99.

Put some protection on your batteries. Don't weld you seat to your battery like mine. :cry:

I intend to edit with pics later.
 
Take a look at the turntech lithium batteries. They're smaller and will crank that engine over just fine. I picked up the 5 AH one for 130.00. Sounds pricey but is 3 lb lighter and much smaller. Seat to battery wearing issues are not new with the 08's but I'm disappointed there wasn't something done about this for the 09's.
 
That sounds pretty sweet, but don't the LI batteries have a problem with blowing up? I mean if a cell phone battery can kill a man...I'd like to know what you think of it after an extended period of time. If it weighs that much less, it would definitely be worth the money.
 
mxracernumber1;36854 said:
That sounds pretty sweet, but don't the LI batteries have a problem with blowing up? I mean if a cell phone battery can kill a man...I'd like to know what you think of it after an extended period of time. If it weighs that much less, it would definitely be worth the money.
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