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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC Check your fuel lines!

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OK '17 2 STROKE owners, I want to share a recent experience with a '17 KTM that should make you go to the garage right away.

I was working pit crew at the recent National Hare n Hound with our club. One of our racers on his brand new KTM 250 came in and told us he ran out of gas on the way in. He has an IMS 3.2 gal tank on a 40 mile loop. So we started looking for the leak. Sho nuf, the line was split right at the petcock outlet. I gently tugged at it and it fell apart. We were going to shorten the line and send him back out, but quickly decided that line wasn't going back on.

I was able to just rip the other end off the carb and removed the clamps and peeled the ends off the barbs. The line had literally deteriorated from the inside out. Post race we found out he uses pump gas. I suspected ethanol was the culprit.

Later this week I was at ZipTy and checked on the lines on Jake Alvarez' 125. They seemed to be just fine, but he runs race gas. I told Ty about my pit fun and he's going to start replacing lines on the team bikes and customer bikes as well.

Bottom line - if you run pump gas with ethanol, go check your fuel lines! Whatever they are using is clearly fine in Europe but do not take our EPA corn gas into consideration.
 
Might have been the same thing I was seeing in this thread. Weird black gunk that seemed to be the fuel line disintegrating.

I went to clear tubing and race gas at the same time and haven't had an issue since.
 
Hmm... I hate ethanol! My problem is that in California, I cannot get anything but. Well, that's not entirely true, I can get race gas in small batches at Riebes Auto Parts stores, but their lowest octane stuff starts at something like $14 per gallon**************************************** And it goes up from there as you go higher octane. I'm not spending that much on gas.
 
Cosmokenney said:
Hmm... I hate ethanol! My problem is that in California, I cannot get anything but. Well, that's not entirely true, I can get race gas in small batches at Riebes Auto Parts stores, but their lowest octane stuff starts at something like $14 per gallon And it goes up from there as you go higher octane. I'm not spending that much on gas.
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There are a few stations that carry no alcohol super around here for about $4 - 4.5 gal. Check this website, there is probably a station close enough that sells it in your area. http://www.pure-gas.org/index.jsp?stateprov=CA

Edit: I just checked and they only list 21 stations in all of CA????? Oregon lists 247. I guess it must really be strict down there. Maybe try a small local airport?
 
Notdoneyet said:
There are a few stations that carry no alcohol super around here for about $4 - 4.5 gal. Check this website, there is probably a station close enough that sells it in your area. http://www.pure-gas.org/index.jsp?stateprov=CA

Edit: I just checked and they only list 21 stations in all of CA????? Oregon lists 247. I guess it must really be strict down there. Maybe try a small local airport?
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I'm confused by the difference between Av Gas and Race Gas. Isn't Av Gas leaded?
EDIT: and, I've see the pure-gas.org site before. I'm always frustrated when I look at it. For that, and MANY other reasons, I'm currently considering moving out of Cali.
 
Most Av Gas is leaded as that is used to raise octane and help with valve wear on older engines.

From WIKI I see there is a grade of Av Gas 91/96UL described as ethanol-free, antioxidant and antistatic additives;]ASTM D7547. 91/96 is the octane rating for lean (cruising) / rich conditions (full power operation), UL stands for unleaded. If you can find some this might be an option.

*Disclaimer: I am not a gas expert so do some research before you actually try it if you have concerns.
 
I use AV gas mixed with race and/or pump gas. It's different than pump gas as it is designed to not ice up at altitude.

Interesting side note, I am in Hawaii right now and noticed that it's easy to find non-ethanol gas out here.
 
Huskynoobee said:
I use AV gas mixed with race and/or pump gas. It's different than pump gas as it is designed to not ice up at altitude.

Interesting side note, I am in Hawaii right now and noticed that it's easy to find non-ethanol gas out here.
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Not many corn fields in Hawaii boss! Haha. Enjoy Hawaii!
 
Exactly my thoughts! They haven't figured out how to use sugar cane or pineapple to make gas yet!
 
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