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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Am I the 1st to break the IMS tank?

I too bought a IMS leaker from bottom seam under the shroud. In desperation to ride I used some Pig Putty (a haz mat leak stop putty)to stop the leak. It worked for a few days. Thanks George for replacing the tank.
 
:doh:I also cracked an IMS tank on an 06 TE450. The kick start lever got pushed (by some unknown force I might add :eek:) into the tank and cracked the underside of the fin...

Does anyone know how to repair a crack in these tanks?
 
Mille44;24267 said:
:doh:I also cracked an IMS tank on an 06 TE450. The kick start lever got pushed (by some unknown force I might add :eek:) into the tank and cracked the underside of the fin...

Does anyone know how to repair a crack in these tanks?
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I checked into getting my tank welded and ended up getting a new one. I checked with the 3M and Permatex reps and evidently the cross link polyethylene is difficult to seal also. Good luck. Ken
 
I caught a tree the first ride on the new tank and not hard , but the wing cracked and soaked me in gas . Wraped it with jb weld ( two piece epoxy) and tape and rode on less gas soaked undies. Left them in the us on a tree.
 
So it seems pretty safe to say the IMS tanks arent worth the hassle. I had one on my yz250 and it leaked around the filler neck.
 
Don't blame IMS, blame CARB,OSHA and EPA and the people who vote in all the GREENIES. As they have caused the protocalls to be writen asto which compounds are to be used in the production of the plastics.
Having said this now we will no longer be able to get the white/white tanks. The new color is an off white,a natural yellowish tinge. This is because the crosslinking agent in the plastic makes it look like that. So quit bagging on them as they try to produce a product we want and demanded but just didn't work under the new rules. All the new tanks are of this new color. Later George
 
2 emails to IMS asking if they can offer me any help fixing my tank or a small discount on replacing it. Been two weeks and no answer. Has anyone got a reply from their "customer service"

Randy
 
ScottyR;59438 said:
Why dont you call them? They always answer the phone when I call.
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Perhaps for you, but you are the largest Husky dealer in Canada.
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I will call this week and see what happens.
 
IMS tank - 08 TE 450

I am unimpressed with fitment so far. The issues:

1) fuel pump EFI gizmo doesn't mate nicely into the cutout, it seems like it needs to be filed (not me, not on a $265 tank) for the EFI fuel pump to fit flush.

2) the airbox plastics stick out about an half an inch when mated to the tank. Perhaps this is the oddball tank, but I was expecting it to be pretty much perfect.

3) shrouds don't match up with what the instructions tell you to do to get them to fit.

I think I want my money back...no use having a tank that's a piece of garbage on a sweet bike, it would be nice to have a little more fuel though.
 
Just curious how they say to deal with the shrouds....

I attached the shrouds with velcro then decided to leave them off. I know it doesn't look as good but I just developed a utilitarian attitude about it eventually.
 
shrouds....

Glanston,

Without threadjacking...I misspoke...the "shrouds" are the black air scoops that fit into the shroud plastics. The instructions say to trim off the tab on top of the air scoops that would normally fit into the shrouds, my air scoops fit without trimming at all which leaves a 1" gap at the top. UGH.

The GPR v4 steering stabilizer actually fits with this tank...so that's pretty cool. :applause:
 
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