• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Coatings

J

James Fannon

Husqvarna
C Class
What do you all think about the vast array of coatings available now: Oil shedding connecting rod coating, Crank and Wrist pins. Coating the exhaust ports or intake ports for better flow, Ceramic Coatings for expansion chambers, Head and piston dome coating, or even nikosil coating the cast iron cylinder liner. Anybody have any experiance with this type of procedure?
 
I guess nikosiling a cast iron sleeve would have similar advantages to a nikosiled aluminum cylinder such as longer life. What about clearances? Should those be adjusted.

What other advantages might there be?

Any disadvantages?
 
They would last a lot longer. Titanium nitride coatings would be very advantageous as well. Disadvantages is cost.
 
I had Swaintech coat the head and piston of my 1991 KTM 540 during its recent rebuild. No problems, but that bike has so much power that I'd never be able to feel any more!
 
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