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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Disc brake problems and solution!

stormer254

stormer254

Husqvarna
AA Class
I am riding my 86 Auto next weekend and decided to change the brake fluid, It looked like it was the original stuff! Drained and filled as per the manual no problem. But no matter what I did I could not get it to work. Lever straight back to the bars. A quick phone call to Andy at HVA in a bit of a panic for seals or a new master cylinder. Instead of selling me what I thought I needed he gave me a couple of solutions . The first was to tie the lever back to the handle bar over night and this should allow the air to rise up to the master cylinder. This did not work but the second suggestion of filling from the bleed screw using a garden spray unit (remove the weedkiller first!!) to supply the pressure to force the fluid through to the master cylinder worked a treat. Thanks Andy a simple and free solution:)
 
done the same on my yz front end conversion but used a syringe instead, like you said sometimes impossible to get a good result using the master cylinder.use a transparent connecting hose so you know when to stop and refill.
 
i have had good luck on many motorcycles using a mityvac on the bleeder screw while filling from the top..and sometime they want the ol pump and bleed trick. i have heard of filling from the bottom from street forums, heard it works great just never tried it
 
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