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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

08 TE450 radiator options

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tntmo

Husqvarna
AA Class
My 450 has had a slight coolant smell for about the last year, never noticed a leak but I knew it was there somewhere. This last weekend I had loaned my bike out and I guess it finally showed itself, the right radiator (cap side) has sprung a leak. The guy I loaned it to was so apologetic, but I assured him that it was not his fault at all. I felt bad that it ended their ride more than anythying.

I'm pretty sure I purchased a set of the eBay cheapies a long time ago and that's what is on there. I was pretty happy with those for under $100 shipped and I see they are still selling around the same price. Anyone purchased them lately and been happy or disappointed?

I also see that Mylers has their SuperCool Radiators available, one on closeout for $125 is listed to fit the following models: Husqvarna CR/WR 125 2009, TE/TC/TXC 250 2010 (Cap Side)

I think that should fit my bike, anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks in advance!
 
WoodsChick said:
Can Mylers fix the leak? Seems like it might be a better option than replacement.
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I have used Mylers before and been very happy with their results. I don't know as if having this aftermarket radiator fixed would be any better than just buying another set of them? They are $90 a set or so. I have been running this set for five years or more. My original set was pretty well destroyed, the left side is twisted up pretty bad but still holds and the right side was completely torn apart. I haven't crashed hard like that for a long time, hopefully no more!
 
I ended up ordering a set of radiators on Ebay, saw that the seller was located in CA. I ordered them on Tuesday and they were at my door on Thursday. Easy install, they look a bit better than the last set I got.

The only issue with them, same as the last set that I got, is that the overflow nipple by the radiator cap is just angled a bit wrong. Getting the hose on it causes a kink because it's so close to the frame. I solved this on my last set by cutting about 1/4" off the nipple. I unscrewed the old one and put it on the new radiator, but I'm going to see if a 45 degree or 90 degree one exists.

Anyway, back in business with a shiny new radiator!
 
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