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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2 Trick Questions for 449/511 owners

The answer to the other modification is a second cooling fan ! You have to relocate the three relays next to your valve cover on the right side.
 
OlderHuskyRider said:
Clean water heater for morning oatmeal, or a cuppa instant Joe?
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Still need to work out some kinks but the "Moto-Cup of Joe" looks like a winner :lol: ! .... Needs a few more wraps around the header but should work good :cheers: .... Look forward to hot oat meal at the top of Sherman pass this summer with some Starbucks instant coffee :doh:

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Rearwheelin said:
Still need to work out some kinks but the "Moto-Cup of Joe" looks like a winner :lol: ! .... Needs a few more wraps around the header but should work good :cheers: .... Look forward to hot oat meal at the top of Sherman pass this summer with some Starbucks instant coffee :doh:
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Can I come? Ill spring for the coffee, wont be on a Husky though...
 
Rearwheelin said:
Still need to work out some kinks but the "Moto-Cup of Joe" looks like a winner :lol: ! .... Needs a few more wraps around the header but should work good :cheers: .... Look forward to hot oat meal at the top of Sherman pass this summer with some Starbucks instant coffee :doh:
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How in heavens name can you get so many topics being discussed in such a short thread? :lol:

Regarding the moto-mule, it works great, eventually I will document it well enough to share my exact thought. But I did pick one up last fall, and it has been extremely useful to me... sort of difficult to move heavy or bulky items any other way.
 
I needed to move a car battery, 5 gallons of fuel, and a toolbox up this hill a couple of weeks ago - about 100lbs. The moto-mule (some call it a wagon, some call it a trailer, some call it a mis-configured sidecar...) worked well.

The hill is about 0.1 miles long. The alternative was humping everything up and down on foot (3 trips). As always, it is steeper than it looks.


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Radiator reservoir - Done !..... Airbox capped with auto chain lubber in place !

Next to do is a oil tank and aluminum header coil for Java Joe :banana:

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For those days where I have been putting down lots of miles pulling that trailer making those crank case blow by oily mist gases there might be a chance of my bike consuming a bit of engine oil :thinking: . The last thing I want to do is ad oil roadside so I came up with the on the go oil adder can. It holds 125-150cc of any grade of oil :D I will have a nicely oiled chain hopefully too :cool: Maybe with a hole in the valve cover this will guarantee a well oiled chain :notworthy:

Java Joe your next !


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I finished the crankcase vent/auto chain lube plumbing today :p . Now I just need the ZipTy valve cover vent :cheers: :doh:

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I did a-lot of research on quality 1/2'' heater hose and found the Goodyear brand to be the best for the money. Comes in 6 foot lengths and up from Summit Racing. Its highly oil resistant, so I take it that it is.
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Also found that HomeDepo is a great place to buy hose fittings.
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If you have a contraption idea and sounds good to me then just might have a home :thinking:
 
It's 3/8" hose coming off my breather vent. The actual oem breather vent is 0.303". SkarkBite makes an adapter from 3/8 to 1/2".

Also, when you have your spark coil out, grind the little plastic ledge around the bolt, it will make removing the spark plug much easier next time/in the field.
 
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