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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Spark Arrestor snap ring rusted in

Joliet

Joliet

Husqvarna
AA Class
A couple of days ago I went to remove my spark arrestor and the snap ring was rusted into place and was very difficult to remove. I started to clean it up, but decided to put in a stainless one instead so I don't have this problem in the future. I ordered it from McMaster Carr. The stainless clip is slightly thinner but seems to work fine.

P/N 91580A237 www.mcmaster.com

I like to pull out my spark arrestor and plug my exhaust with a rubber plug when I wash my bike so I don't get water into the exhaust. Last time I washed it, I got some water in the exhaust, didn't start it for a week and I must have had a valve sticking, it was hard to start and took a minute before it started to run well.

So anyway you guys with the 08's may want to take out your spark arrestors as part of your regular maintenance routine so it does not get rusted in. And start your bikes after washing them. :)Ken
 
Joliet;13008 said:
And start your bikes after washing them
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that's the ticket right there.:thumbsup:

Never put your "bike" away wet...

Dog...get your mind out of the gutter...I said..... bike
 
I've used a 2 stroke exhaust plug for my exhaust with the spark arrestor in after just trimming the small end off slightly to reduce the overall length. Diameter fit the spark arrestor fine.
 
I shove a plastic grocery bag into the exhaust pipe and over the instrument cluster (TE).... figure they might be put to good use.

Nice find on the part number for the stainless steel ring!
 
I use the plastic grocery bag over the foam air cleaner when washing and have subbed in a piece for the exhaust pipe a time or two also.
 
no spark arrestor in mine,PA isn't a fire zone like Cali is,its wet here 11 and a half months out of the year. Sealed my speedo up with black silicone before I even rode it once,and have never had a problem with it.
 
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