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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

URGENT! - Check the hose routing to your coolant tank.

J

jj89074

Husqvarna
A Class
Check the hose routing from your coolant expansion tank to the radiator. Mine was incorrectly connected to the fuel evaporative emissions purge valve!

While doing maintenance on my bike, I decided to remove the stock fuel evaporative system (do a canisterectomy), and I found quite the surprise. Someone on the production line mistakenly connected the radiator overflow to the fuel evap purge valve and connected the charcoal canister to the coolant expansion tank. Attached is a photo of the hose from the radiator to the valve (with factory clamp still installed).

I am guessing that if one bike made it through production with this screw-up, there are probably others.

As for my bike, I never noticed any over-heating issue and I did do a lot of riding in 110 °F desert heat. However, I did notice I could never keep the coolant tank topped-off. I guess it took a little time for the coolant to flow through the canister and onto the ground.

I'm sure some coolant was sucked into the engine, but the coolant in the radiator was only about 6 to 8 oz low.
 

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jj89074 said:
Check the hose routing from your coolant expansion tank to the radiator. Mine was incorrectly connected to the fuel evaporative emissions purge valve!

While doing maintenance on my bike, I decided to remove the stock fuel evaporative system (do a canisterectomy), and I found quite the surprise. Someone on the production line mistakenly connected the radiator overflow to the fuel evap purge valve and connected the charcoal canister to the coolant expansion tank. Attached is a photo of the hose from the radiator to the valve (with factory clamp still installed).

I am guessing that if one bike made it through production with this screw-up, there are probably others.

As for my bike, I never noticed any over-heating issue and I did do a lot of riding in 110 °F desert heat. However, I did notice I could never keep the coolant tank topped-off. I guess it took a little time for the coolant to flow through the canister and onto the ground.

I'm sure some coolant was sucked into the engine, but the coolant in the radiator was only about 6 to 8 oz low.
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Had a similar problem of resevoir emptying constantly... post-canisterectomy symptoms show complete relief and improved health of motorcycle.
 
Anyway I have checked the radiator hose conexions and everything is right. Radiator hose is conected with expanded cooolant bottle, even it could be 90 angle
dificult the coolant pass through . I hope no to have problems with overheating next summer.
 
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