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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Consequences of NOT replacing a TE449 crankshaft at 70 hours
- Thread starter Marc Noel
- Start date
Shawntrain
Husqvarna
AA Class
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kymco
Those people make a lot of engines -
There are some growing pains when you first get your bike, these are the the must do's in my opinion:
Totally remove the fuel vapor catch assembly & plug the little hole that directs it back into the intake,
I took the crankcase breather hose off the air filter, plugged that hole into the air filter box, put a hose reducer on the end of the breather tube & routed it to a small catch bottle on the other side, during the break in it would blow by about an ounce every 9 hrs, after about 25hrs, no more blow by and catch bottle stays empty.
Lithium battery, way lighter & seems to eliminate the speedo reset problem, I think it takes a lot of cranking amps to turn that monster over.
Flush & replace coolant soon after you get the bike, you'll find some white powdery type stuff in the coolant, I think from engine assembly, replace coolant often - it's seems like a small quantity.
I replace oil every 9 hrs, again cause it's a small quantity, I use a k&p stainless oil filter, just clean with brake cleaner & put back in, I use the amsoil dirt bike 10/40.
I've replaced the rear wheel bearings 3 times since new, I think the seals & stock bearings aren't quite up to snuff. I got a second set of wheels from warp 9 & they are awesome.
If you can, pick up the fmf exhaust & you will need to go to race map II.
Once you get these little things sorted, these bikes are truly great, very forward thinking went into them & only now are other brands starting to use some of that same thinking, Yamaha for instance.
I've really only once used full throttle once, I ride mostly single track in waiporus here in AB, and my riding buddy said he saw the rear tire deform dragster style. I was going way too fast way too quickly.