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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Wanted Husqvarna LT610E Acerbis 17 Litre petrol tank for my TE610E :

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The numbers are the same except the "year." The clear one is noticeably larger.

Clear/larger tank.
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The white/smaller tank.
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Thanks Huskyfatman. Same part number, different volume. Interesting.
Comparing the moulding imprints both your clear tank and my tank are from the same dies (92 date stamp error) while your other tank is from a later die. That die must have been modified or made differently to the other one for some reason.
 
scudster said:
Thanks Huskyfatman. Same part number, different volume. Interesting.
Comparing the moulding imprints both your clear tank and my tank are from the same dies (92 date stamp error) while your other tank is from a later die. That die must have been modified or made differently to the other one for some reason.
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I agree, the older version appears higher quality, with sharper contours, plus the cobby-looking newer one seems to have had a few additional indentations for clearance I suspect. These are OEM tanks, and are much thicker, heavier and more durable than your typical aftermarket tank from IMS, Clarke, or even Acerbis in my experience.

I was told by an old desert racer who spent a few years campaigning 610's back in the early 90's that these tanks were made of a tougher nylon, rather than the typical plastic. He claimed that's why they could be painted and were emissions legal since fumes didn't leach through the material, much like the plastic tanks on modern street bikes.
 
The tank certainly is sturdy. There isn't much protection if you fall on to something sharp so it needs to be tough.
 
Came across another hens tooth. It’s a later tank from ‘99 and it’s a 17 litre tank with clearance for the radiator fan. I haven’t tried fit it yet to confirm but comparing photos there seems to be an indent to allow it.



 
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