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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1982 honda odyssey

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268fords

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So I was given a 1982 honda odyssey with a Kawasaki snowmobile engine. I've been able to find some stuff on the odyssey, but haven't had much luck with the engine. The engine is out of a John Deere snowmobile which I found a little weird. I didn't know john Deere made snowmobiles. Here is some pics. image.jpg image.jpg
Any help with the engine would be appreciated. Especially the carbs. Engine turns, and has spark. Gotta clean the carbs thoroughly. Engine is a TC440A-D202
 

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looks like a john deere liquifire engine. kawasaki made fan cooled twins for arctic cat before suzuki took over and also had their own line of sleds. just about everyone made sleds in the 60s and 70s, but that died in the 80s massey ferguson, bolens, johnson, evinrude, mercury, and about 100 others!..twin chambers for that engine would really, really, wake it up. looks like fun. i think i would make some kind of airbox for it tho...shouldnt have to hard a time getting parts or help once you identify what sled it could be out of.

what do you want to know about the carbs? they look like older mikuni roundslides.
 
Thanks. I was finally able to get the carbs apart, and found them full of water. I've been able to find out that there mikuni 36mm power jet carbs. Looks like I might be trying to find some new carbs. There pretty bad! The more I've looked at this thing, the more i will be needing to fix, but hey, it was free so that doesn't hurt so bad.
The challenge is the best part!
 
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