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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Coolant Hoses

Mercury264

Mercury264

Husqvarna
AA Class
Got back from a ride yesterday and I found that some of the radiator hoses had sort of collapsed - almost like they were being sucked in.

Guy I was with said the rad cap is the problem since it is meant to let air in to compensate for the contraction of the coolant system as it cooled.

Was he right or anybody know what to look for ? Coolant level is good (it did spit a bit out the overflow bottle on a steep climb but it wasn't a lot).

Cheers
:cheers:
 
Bad cap seems to make sense, as the rads should be able to pull coolant back in from the burp tank on cool down. Should be easy to check with another cap. Could your line from the rad to the tank be plugged or kinked? Maybe even have a cap on the burp tank that's not venting like it should? I don't know if your setup is the same as my 08 so .........
 
ioneater;28800 said:
Bad cap seems to make sense, as the rads should be able to pull coolant back in from the burp tank on cool down. Should be easy to check with another cap. Could your line from the rad to the tank be plugged or kinked? Maybe even have a cap on the burp tank that's not venting like it should? I don't know if your setup is the same as my 08 so .........
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Yup .What he said. :D
 
Might as well buy a 1.8 cap while your at it. The huskys come with low pressure caps like 1.1 scott summers and many others just replace the cap with the high psi 1.8 cap and it prevents boil over from happening.

I need to get this done soon, Ive heard that kx60 caps work.
 
Jrmobb;60494 said:
Might as well buy a 1.8 cap while your at it. The huskys come with low pressure caps like 1.1 scott summers and many others just replace the cap with the high psi 1.8 cap and it prevents boil over from happening.

I need to get this done soon, Ive heard that kx60 caps work.
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KX60 as in a Kawasaki ? If not, where else can I get a 1.8 I wonder :excuseme:
 
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