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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Ceramic Exhaust Coating for Header & Y pipe

Martinehijo said:
I placed them back for the test ride. So you think the three elements work together inside the same chamber?
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yes. Spring, ball and washer form the valve which is located in the center chamber. I don't remember how they belong together but it is not too difficult to figure out. I think the ball sits inside the spring which pushes the washer away from the ball so that vapor can escape. Fuel would push the washer against the ball and close the little hole in the washer so that the fuel cannot escape. Something like that.
 
I tryied different combinations and the one that worked better was: left chamber houses the ball alone, it´s grooved so to keep the appropiate diameter for the ball size. The right chamber houses the spring and the washer sits above the spring, or mayby bellow. Thanks again for your help
 
Martinehijo said:
I placed them back for the test ride. So you think the three elements work together inside the same chamber?
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Throw them away. Ethanol is the problem, it causes the ball and spring to stick up.
I would rather the bike leaked a little fuel if it ever fell over than have it expand the tank or blow fuel in my face.
Lets face it, with the valve intact there is more chance of blowing the tank up and or getting sprayed with fuel than there is of the bike falling over.

Had my Nuda Downpipes coated in Ceramic Volcan Black from Performance 1 Coatings in the UK, awesome job and not too expensive at GBP 144 for both pipes. (total length 2.9m)
 
Martinehijo said:
I placed them back for the test ride. So you think the three elements work together inside the same chamber?
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As a Terra owner who, upon removing the filler cap to fuel up at a gas station, has had nearly 2 gallons of fuel errupt from the fuel tank into a violent geyser that covered, me, the bike and everything within a 20 radius with gasoline, I second the motion to just toss the relief valve components in the trash.

I ride mostly off-road and have dropped the bike many times. Very little fuel leaks out during an off.

Now back to our regular programming on ceramic coatings...
 
gullywasher said:
As a Terra owner who, upon removing the filler cap to fuel up at a gas station, has had nearly 2 gallons of fuel errupt from the fuel tank into a violent geyser that covered, me, the bike and everything within a 20 radius with gasoline, I second the motion to just toss the relief valve components in the trash.

I ride mostly off-road and have dropped the bike many times. Very little fuel leaks out during an off.

Now back to our regular programming on ceramic coatings...
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Hey Gullywasher, so the geyser was due to the relief valve??, you did realy had a huge preassure buildup. I´ll toss the components in the trash right away.
 
When the relief valve fails pressure builds up and as soon as you open the tank cap, fuel will spray all over.
Getting rid of that valve was one of the first mods I ever did on the bike.
 
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