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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Newbie question about my air filter...

Mojo

Mojo

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi folks,

Okay firstly my apologies for such a dumb question but the Terra is my first bike (and I'm new to biking in general) so I'd appreciate a quick opinion on this simple matter just so I can confront my garage with confidence!

I had some work done on the bike and asked for a service at the same time as I believed it would be convenient. However I've issue with some of the work they did which has caused my clutch cable to become torn against the radiator the way they routed it so I thought I'd check to see what else they did or didn't do...

First thing I did was pulled my filter cover and found this, no grease around it and the filter looks like this:

Question is... did they replace it? I think not... :(

I've ridden the bike maybe 10 times top since their "service" and definitely no more than 200 miles or so all in relatively clean (always dry so far) conditions. Bike has about 8,400 miles on it and I'm guessing this is the original filter but I have 0 experience and 0 filters to compare to.


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Definitely the original Air Filter and as indicated from manufacture date 18-09-12.
Get yourself a K&N BM-6507 which is washable or a HiFlo 7602 if you only want a Paper replacement.
Confront the dealer and if necessary vote with your feet.
 
Mojo said:
Okay firstly my apologies for such a dumb question but the Terra is my first bike (and I'm new to biking in general) so I'd appreciate a quick opinion on this simple matter just so I can confront my garage with confidence!
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NOTHING quick about the airfilter of the TR (groan)....just do your own search+read here as well as on ADVrider
http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/husky-tr650-new-owners-stupid-questions-thread.850525/
It's a real issue. Plenty of opinions, too.


Mojo said:
I had some work done on the bike and asked for a service at the same time as I believed it would be convenient. However I've issue with some of the work they did which has caused my clutch cable to become torn against the radiator the way they routed it so I thought I'd check to see what else they did or didn't do...
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That item has nothing to do with your service/ bike shop...it's a legacy of the Husky-factory
One of the maaaany items on the list...
Have a good read around.
Maybe one of many threads to get things started
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/pottering-around.39580/

..and DEFINITELY get the bike booked for the re-call job, if it hasn't been done yet.
 
silverstreakNZ said:
It's not common practice to put grease around a rubber edged paper filter
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No it is not common in general, but due to the stock airbox design it has been a common thing to do on our bikes to mitigate the poor sealing.

Being uncommon in general I would not expect a shop to do it unless requested, though clearly THAT filter was not recently replaced.
 
Cheers! Went and ordered the HiFlo one for now... Looking through those links and then some more, the 3D printed option seems to appeal the most for whatever reason as a permanent fix.

As far as the recall mentioned there strangely doesn't seem to be much word of it in the UK, at least I haven't received or found anything about it. I may just have to give one of the bigger dealers a buzz and see what they know.

Thanks again
 
It's common enough in the 4wd world when fine dust is expected.
Many panel filters don't form a good enough fit without it.
 
Mojo said:
Cheers! Went and ordered the HiFlo one for now... Looking through those links and then some more, the 3D printed option seems to appeal the most for whatever reason as a permanent fix.

As far as the recall mentioned there strangely doesn't seem to be much word of it in the UK, at least I haven't received or found anything about it. I may just have to give one of the bigger dealers a buzz and see what they know.

Thanks again
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Down Under if you're not the original owner you may well not be on the mail list. So yeah, head for a dealer.
 
Ziggy said:
Down Under if you're not the original owner you may well not be on the mail list. So yeah, head for a dealer.
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My understanding of the situation was that the original importer PFG did not register the bike ownership information correctly with Husqvarna at the time of sale and that Husqvarna had no record of any Australian ownerships and therefore no recall letters had been sent to any Australian owners.
 
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