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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Water prepping my bike...

mattmcphail

mattmcphail

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'm riding a dual sport next month that typically has some pretty deep water crossings. What special "water" preperations to my bike do I need to make for my bike? I have an 08 TE 450 (efi).

Thanks,
Matt
 
Seal up(mostly) the big hole in the bottom of the airbox. You need to make it hard for water to get in, but easy for it to drain out.
Some guys attach a 4-5" section of inner tube to the bottom of the airbox. I used a piece of 90 degree plastic and used the bolts for the mud flap to hold it in place.

Also seal up the sides of the airbox, between the plastic side number plate panel and the air box. I used foam tape on mine.

Use a good sticky air filter oil like Belray. Don't use No-toil****************************************
 
Sorry to jump on your thread but what do you dislike about No Toil or a even better question what do you like about other brands and stiles of air filter oil?:cheers:

Dan L
 
I believe that water will pass through no toil easier than most oils. Belray is suppose to hold back water splashes better. Although no oil is going to hold back a gusher. not 100% on that though
 
Do the efi models have breather hoses? if so mount some of them up high into the battery/air box area, you can even attach a small filter to them.
 
RE. No-toil-

In Ontario- there are lots of places to play submarine. We've found Notoil to be useless against water. Belray and other sticky oils work good though.
Here are a couple threads with good info:

http://www.odsc.on.ca/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15633

This link is in the thread above;

http://odsc.on.ca/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8722
Be sure to watch the youtube video in the thread above, showing how ineffective Notoil is against water.

Personally, I think Notoil is only effective in relatively dry conditions, with not too much fine dust, and only when the oil was applied within 12-24 hours before riding.
Pretty much useless at all other times.
Not trying to start a air filter oil war. Just sayin.....
 
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