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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Air box heat insulation

P

pcross71

Husqvarna
AA Class
Have read up on heat from exhaust melting the airbox and want to insulate to protect.
Ordered this:
http://www.thermotec.com/products/14002-thermo-shield.html
Hope it does the trick - let me know if i missed the boat.
Is the part that's in jeopardy the hard black plastic box that's below the battery (close to the inlet of the muffler) or the soft rubber unit that's upstream of the air filter (hope the former as i don't think tape will stick to the soft rubber).
Thanks
 
I used this:

http://www.shopatron.com/products/p...CK/part_number=13500/681.0.1.1.27420.0.0.0.0?

And some spray adhesive.

The tape you bought should work, you'll just have to lay it on in strips, carefully. Clean the airbox, then clean it again with some rubbing alcohol to get all the grease off.

You only have to worry about the areas within 1/2 inch or so of direct contact, not the rubber boot. My '08 TXC airbox touched the pipe - and so promptly melted. I patched the hole, put on the heat barrier above, and then just to be pedantic about it, wrapped my pipe. No problems with it since.

Now if I could more than 1500 miles out of a cam bearing, or 100 miles out of a fork seal, I'd be happy.
 
I had the same problem with my 08 TXC250 ... I removed the inside spacer off the rubber grommet where the pipes attaches to the frame just in front of the air box and replaced it with one of the spacers that attach the plastic shrouds to the tank ... This spacer is much thinner than the original one and pulls the pipe away from the air box when the bolt is tightened ...

A better idea would be to shave down the flat side of the original spacer in the rubber grommet and use it ...

And add the tape as you guys have already stated ...

No problems with the cam bearings after ~3000 miles and had to replace only 1 fork seal ...

PS -- What happened to that 310?
 
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