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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Exhaust System Weights (especially the muffler)

My stock exhaust (2011 txc 449) is huge, weighs a ton (guessing 8-10 pounds) and stays hot for at least two hours! But it's quiet, which I really like. So what do I do? Can't afford Akro but love that one. Looking at FMF Powercore with Quiet Insert, but I'm afraid it will still be way louder than stock.
 
BigUtSwede said:
My stock exhaust (2011 txc 449) is huge, weighs a ton (guessing 8-10 pounds) and stays hot for at least two hours! But it's quiet, which I really like. So what do I do? Can't afford Akro but love that one. Looking at FMF Powercore with Quiet Insert, but I'm afraid it will still be way louder than stock.
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I have the powercore with the quiet insert. It is really loud. I remember that someone on here could net even pass the 96 db test with it and had to put on the stock can for the test and then put the powercore back on for the race.
 
Oh thank you, thank you. I was thinking this and started to drill out the pop rivets. They seemed to be hardened steel. My drill bit won't cut beyond the aluminum collar. I guess I have to find a better drill bit set. I'm excited to give this a try.
 
BigUtSwede said:
Oh thank you, thank you. I was thinking this and started to drill out the pop rivets. They seemed to be hardened steel. My drill bit won't cut beyond the aluminum collar. I guess I have to find a better drill bit set. I'm excited to give this a try.
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Try using a small drift punch and knock the hardened steel center through the rivet then drill the head off. I spent several years working on aircraft back in the 80's (8 years Navy) as a structural mechanic. We didn't use many pop rivets in those days but did come across them and had to replace them enough to get good at it.
 
stainless rivets= less likely to work their way out like aluminum.
But hard to drill as well- use new bits- use a drill press if available for consistent pressure and accuracy. (this decreased my drill time by 2/3 of the time)
 
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