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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Beware all 13 redhead owners. Blown hose & more

robertaccio said:
you simply cut the hose to adjust for the fan thermostat.
PS For inspection/note: even after I added the ZipTy tank spacers I got another tiny chafe leak at the coolant pump spigot, with a full fuel load that lower tank portion moves around and can still make contact, I added a slit hose as a doubler, just like you see on my lower hose in this photo. In this photo you can even see the spigot hose area has been chafed on the CV4 logo (this is before the tank spacers were added). This machine requires lots of race/ride prep and close inspection and solid mods to bullet proof it for tough conditions.
Another note: my first thermosat equipped dirtbike was my KTM250EXC, I left the housing (there were no real hose kits then) installed but removed the thermostat, one less thing to fail under race conditions, imagine if your T-stat fails closed, its happened on some of my older cars, nogo on a race bike!! get it off. I wanted the thermostat removed asap on my TE310 and also on my TXC310R, the CV4 hose kits took care of that..
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Robert,
What radiator brace is that?
 
Tinken said:
You can order Samco silicon hoses through us
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Did that. Wouldn't recommend it. Samco sent a defective hose and their customer service is non-responsive. ZipTy is trying to help in response to my customer service inquiries to them, but apparently Samco is non-responsive to them as well, so I am stuck with an unusable set of hoses. Not happy.
 
Mike-AK said:
Did that. Wouldn't recommend it. Samco sent a defective hose and their customer service is non-responsive. ZipTy is trying to help in response to my customer service inquiries to them, but apparently Samco is non-responsive to them as well, so I am stuck with an unusable set of hoses. Not happy.
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You're not "Stuck" with anything. You may send them back for a full refund.
 
Tinken said:
You're not "Stuck" with anything. You may send them back for a full refund.
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Thanks. I was told earlier that I would need to send them directly back to Samco and would need to wait for an RMA from Samco in order to do that. Thank you for making things right. To help you recoup some of your cost, I would be interested in ordering a set of CV4 TC250 hoses through you if you are a dealer.
 
PS I went to my local hardware store and picked up some rubber washers to raise the tank even further, so i have the alloy ZipTy spacers with 2 rubber (hose) washers on top of them, clearance is better. Funny now I can see the wear marks from my plastic onto my frame on the side, telling me my tank is higher.
You can also see my hose doubler on the lower hose to ward off trail hack for added no DNF bullet proofing.
You can see on the "water pump" spigot area where the tank was chafing onto the hose, the CV4 logo is worn at the chafe point.
 
robertaccio said:
PS I went to my local hardware store and picked up some rubber washers to raise the tank even further, so i have the alloy ZipTy spacers with 2 rubber (hose) washers on top of them, clearance is better. Funny now I can see the wear marks from my plastic onto my frame on the side, telling me my tank is higher.
You can also see my hose doubler on the lower hose to ward off trail hack for added no DNF bullet proofing.
You can see on the "water pump" spigot area where the tank was chafing onto the hose, the CV4 logo is worn at the chafe point.
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What about the stock rubber washers? are you running those too?
 
fire1998 said:
Sitting in hotel room in Laughlin Nv a little pissed. After leading our class for most of race my 13 TXC 310, with 10 hours on it, blew a radiator hose. The elbow going into water pump was rubbing on the side of the head. It was not down low at water pump where there was an issue on some earlier bikes. I had no idea that it had happened. Only reason I knew there was a problem is that it kept stalling. No idea how long it was without water. This happened on last loop. Had to stop at check points and bum water to fill rad. Made it to pit but damage was done. We replaced hose filled up radiators and buddy took off. Bike ended up getting stuck in first gear for last 5 miles. Why the hell would you design a cooling system where hoses rub on the head? I talked with Ty Davis after race and he had never seen this before. Here's some pics. Go look at your rad hoses now. Ty told me to call Andy Jefferson and see what he would do for me. Motor is probably toast on a basically brand new not even broke in motor, it's broke now for sure. I absolutely love bike but this is ridiculous engineering!!! If husky won't help me, I might be parting put bike as Im not gonna pay $2500-3000 to rebuild moter!!
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"Saw your photo's thanks for posting them"

I had a look at my bike and there's a black plastic braided cover over the hose pipe and its tight on top of the red head , had your bike got the same protection or will this need to be changed to something better more robust hose.
Just to let you know, When i got my bike the top banjo bolt on the right side came loose all the oil was pumped out without me knowing and completely ruined the engine, dont think it was ever tighten properly from new , However the damage was mostly covered under warranty , Was charged £270 build fee , Keep an eye on the oil pipe
 
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