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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'08 IMS tanks

75Hus400wr;1398 said:
It would take time, but there probably is another tank in their (IMS) inventory that could be made to work. Back in 85 while racing the Baja 1000 on a new then 86 510TX, we ran into that problem. The bike had just come out in October 85, and there were not any large tanks on the market yet. The guy I raced with rode Kawasaki's in the desert and fashioned an KX 250, 3.4 gallon, IMS tank to our Husky, and made it work. It took time and a machinest abilities, but it worked great.

Speed forward to 04, thats what Uptite did for the 04 TC 250/450s. He took the Suz DRZ 400 tank (the one with the big wings out front) and made a mount to make them fit on the Husky frames. Like I said earlier in another post, it takes time, energy and sometimes a wallet and a hookup to different tanks. Hopefully the new 08s will be out before we have to go this route again.
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07 tank will not work on the semi perimeter framed 08. But the frame is similar to the YZ250 and and steel framed RM250 which are both similar semi perimeter framed bikes. I'm sure it would take lots of custom work but might be possible.
 
There you go Kelly. It will just take some of those Engineer types (I'm not one of them) who are on this site now, time to play around with it a little.

There are loads of YZ 250s and RM 250s around; someone will know of someone that owns one with an IMS tank and play with it. Or a shop with new IMS tanks that will lend one out for some R&D work maybe?

I'm waiting for the 09 TE 610s, and hopefully by then, a tank will be out for them too. Thanks for all the great photos you have been taking too Kelly!

Mike Penland is out west here in San Diego, starting a 5 day Baja quad ride this morning, with a couple NY buddies of his and his brother driving chase. When he gets back, I can ask where he gets his custom aluminum flat tanks made for the various quads he races in the Baja 1000 each year? That would fit those racks of yours nicely with between 1.0 and 1.5 gallons.
 
I haven't looked into it, but are all the KTM style sidetanks made to mount on the left only?? If there's a righthand mount, it might be a viable option :confused:
 
Motosportz;1402 said:
07 tank will not work on the semi perimeter framed 08. But the frame is similar to the YZ250 and and steel framed RM250 which are both similar semi perimeter framed bikes. I'm sure it would take lots of custom work but might be possible.
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I just happen to know a guy who has a few YZ tanks sitting around, might have to give it a try now that you have shown us how easy it is to remove the TXC tank with the damper attached:o
 
shotgunscott;1488 said:
I just happen to know a guy who has a few YZ tanks sitting around, might have to give it a try now that you have shown us how easy it is to remove the TXC tank with the damper attached:o
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Thats right, try that!
 
Ruffus;1423 said:
I haven't looked into it, but are all the KTM style sidetanks made to mount on the left only?? If there's a righthand mount, it might be a viable option :confused:
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My Husky has a right side tank. The Baja Designs/KTM and Yamaha side tanks are all for the left.

The right side tank is available from Meca. They are extremely well made (dakar specs), and cost about $200. Problem of course with all side tanks is that with EFI models they need to be worked in with the electric fuel pump. Mine uses an external fuel pump (made by Mikuni) going to the carb.
 
Mike Kay;1576 said:
My Husky has a right side tank. The Baja Designs/KTM and Yamaha side tanks are all for the left.

The right side tank is available from Meca. They are extremely well made (dakar specs), and cost about $200. Problem of course with all side tanks is that with EFI models they need to be worked in with the electric fuel pump. Mine uses an external fuel pump (made by Mikuni) going to the carb.
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How about a simple fuel pump like you have transfer fuel to the main tank, that way you don't need a separate high pressure injection pump??
 
I think one could re-mount the electric fuel pump into a small SS bottle with gravity feed from both a normal petcock on the side tank and normal petcock on the front tank. Ive been eyeing the little SS fuel and water bottles they sell at upscale camping stores like REI.

Just plumb in a Y and take it to a small cannister with the fuel pump inside and bamm--all the fuel capacity one could ever want.
 
Motosportz;556 said:
Those guys are right down the road from me. Nice people, nice shop. I offered them a way early 08 and they said no thanks and probably never. :eek: Uh, OK.
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Raising this thread from the dead, I asked them today if they had anything in the works....


From: Clarke Manufacturing [mailto:sales@clarkemfg.com]
Sent: Fri 5/15/2009 11:13
To: Chris
Subject: Re: 08-09 Husqvarna TE Fuel Tank


Sorry, no current plans

Clarke mfg co
 
Aqualine

GOT A EMAIL FROM AQUALINE WITH THIS UPDATE:

Thank you for your enquiry, the Husky tanks are still going ahead but because there is still a lot of design and development to be done I do not have a lot of information at this stage but it is looking like they will available towards the end of the year. Feel free to contact us again in a few months or keep an eye on our web site for updates.
 
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