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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Fuel pump seal leaking.

fastkx125 said:
Yayyyy finally fixed! Fingers crossed. It was a great bike.
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Fingers crossed brother !!!

I was obsessing with this problem...whenever something is wrong with any of my bikes then it bugs the hell out of me
I was walking around it and poking at it over and over....

but I'm really relieved even if this repair won't hold for long I know exactly what was happening and that gives me peace of mind...any way fingers crossed
bike is in the front room and it is not smellllllyyyyyyyyy****************************************!

it looks like it was manufacturing problem
brass didn't get welded in correctly all around ...
 
A great job you've done of determining the cause and a very thorough solution. I hope you don't have any further problems with this. It makes me feel lucky that I haven't had any similar problem with my Terra, my ability to perform that kind of repair would be severely lacking.
 
nev.. said:
A great job you've done of determining the cause and a very thorough solution. I hope you don't have any further problems with this. It makes me feel lucky that I haven't had any similar problem with my Terra, my ability to perform that kind of repair would be severely lacking.
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Thanks. so far no problem and every day I take the seat off and smell it and shake the bike and so far so good. It was a manufacturing defect from the start
Im sure of that, some hard off road and a few low downs must have done the rest and gas started sipping between the black tank and inner liner
around the opening for the fuel pump, the voids around the brass sets got filled with gas and under pressure it started leaking.

You must have some great riding in Australia mate

ride safe
 
nev.. said:
The grass always seems greener elsewhere, but in Virginia USA you've probably got more good riding roads than the whole of australia combined.
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Oh man...I don't complain...Virginia is heaven for riding, beautiful roads, lush rich green and scenic, mountains and huge rivers...
but Australia mate ...that is cool..I imagine chasing Kangaroos on a dirt bike in the open bush...at least that is what I heard from a fellow sailor who stopped in our village ....best regards
 
Interesting enough I noticed wonderful improvement in engine behavior after fixing the gas leak.
Idle is stable and doesn't oscillate anymore. It seems confident and it purrs like a kitty
slow speed is stable without any jerking.

it seems to me because of the leak there was no stable pressure in the tank causing the idle speed to waver and slow speed to be jerky
 
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