• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1986 WR 400 gas tank preservation

1986WR400

1986WR400

Husqvarna
B Class
I have a fairly clean gas tank. The California fuel additives have done a number on the tank and has discolored it. Is there a way to clean up the discoloration or can someone recommend a way to seal and paint the plastic tank?
 
1986WR400;58926 said:
I have a fairly clean gas tank. The California fuel additives have done a number on the tank and has discolored it. Is there a way to clean up the discoloration or can someone recommend a way to seal and paint the plastic tank?
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I have a '85 CR500 which has the same problem....

The tank can not be cleaned from the outside as the plastic is tainted all the way through.

So I have come to the conclusion that the tank needs to be sealed (this wouls stop further 'bleed' and then sprayed with a plastised (if I have spelt that correctly) paint to bring the surface back to original.

Tank Sealer (UK but might ship or tell you where to get it in the US):

http://www.tankcareproducts.co.uk/

Paint: Either a paint shop or http://www.caswelleurope.co.uk/krylon_fusion.htm

I know Krylon is available on your side of the pond.

I haven't got round to doing my tank yet so I can't show you any pictures but I might start that soon.

Hope this helps.

Stu
 
This best and final way to fix this problem is have the guy on E-bay or Joe Abbates cycle therapy seal the inside of the tank with a special process that won't let gas fumes pass thru-a tank within a tank. The guy on E-bay charge $300 to do the process,I know it takes a week for the inner liner to cure.He then paints the outside and puts on decals. The other good thing about this process decals will no longer bubble. I have it done on my YZ465 tank and think it's the best looking tank ever.:cheers:
 

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