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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC Trouble with fuel overflow from carb float bowl

airrider

airrider

Husqvarna
AA Class
So I finally had a chance to play with this new/used bike and after filling the gas tank and going for a short ride, I was surprised to see fuel was pouring out of the overflow tube leading from the carb float bowl, leaving fuel streaks on the driveway.
Thinking it was the float getting stuck, I tapped on the bowl hoping to reseat the float valve, but it just kept on flowing out. Shutting the petcock off stops the leak.
Before the ride and while it was warming up, there was no trace of a fuel drip, it must have started only after the short 8 minute ride.
What should I do, yank the carb and get into the bowl?
2014 TE300
 
Same thing happened to me with a brand-new bike (Yam WR250) back in the day. I had to pull the carb on the side of the trail-turned out to be debris of some kind stuck in the float needle housing. Good luck!
 
...and while I was tapping it, all this debris came out with the gas. They (previous owner) probably filled the tank from a dirty gas jug and I'm just catching the crap now. I'm gonna start with the fuel strainer and see what could have passed thru.
 
Wait! There is no strainer at the fuel petcock. Where the hell is it? When did they do away with these screeny thingys? I must be getting old.
 
Norman Foley said:
Another fuel tap tip.... You'll have to switch to reserve, sooner than you think it would be needed. This will save you a... WTF moment while riding!:oldman:
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Thanks, I can see that. The tank is super slim and the pickup is way up there. The bike was delivered with reserve fuel levels. I hope I can complete my average 25 mile loop before I switch to reserve.
 
So, all fixed. I got to the float and everything was clean, The float valve checked out but the float level seemed high. But Why? So I made an adjustment for it to shut off when it was level with the top of the bowl. I wish I had a specification, but I did it by eye. Test ride checked out perfectly and no pissing gas.
 
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