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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Race Map 3 or JD Power Surge 6X

This is the double bend I made the hose from the vent to the oil cooler.

Holds its shape and I can still get to all the bolts when required.


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Husky Bob said:
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Hi Cosmokenny, I took some pics of how I was told to bend hoses WITHOUT kinking them.

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Choose a spring that has a slightly larger (or at least the same) outer diameter as that of the inside diameter of the hose that you need to bend. NOTE: the spring may not have a smaller diameter than the hose.

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Preferably choose a spring with end rings/loops because springs slightly too large need to be pre-stretched a little. After stretching or if the ring does not need to be stretched cut the end rings/loops off.

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Thread a nylon cord (cotton cord does not slide as easily) through one end of the spring and double it over.
Then feed the two lengths of cord through the hose intended for bending until the cord appears out the other end.
Then pull the two lengths of cord thereby pulling the spring into the hose, feeding it slowly as you go (I found lubricating the inside of the hose with a little oil helps).
Pull and feed the spring slowly into the hose until the spring is seated in the hose where it will be bent.

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Insert an additional spring for each additional bend...
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That's a great idea! Thanks for the post.
 
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