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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2006 Sm610 petcock options

hollywoodcrash

hollywoodcrash

Husqvarna
A Class
RE: two petcocks on 2006 SM610 carbureted are leaking
The OEM parts aren't available new. Ebay has used parts that are really expensive, before conversion to CAD and shipping, I'm not really interested.
This is the RH petcock with the wire for the fuel light on the wonky digital speedo unit, and the LH threaded petcock-both are leaking.
So, are there aftermarket petcocks that work ( I can lose the low fuel light), or how have people rebuilt theirs? I might be able to get a plastic T-adapter to bring fuel from left and right sides of tank I suppose.
Specific to the RH side, are there supposed to be two thrust washers in there to apply pressure to the handle part?
Thanks.
 
I have replaced o ring now twice in rh petcock.(Just black nbr type,so it wont last forever. I believe viton would be better solution) It did get harder to use,but leak was cured. If i remember right,there was two washers in mine also. Cant help LH side,it has held so far.
 
ceevu said:
I have replaced o ring now twice in rh petcock.(Just black nbr type,so it wont last forever. I believe viton would be better solution) It did get harder to use,but leak was cured. If i remember right,there was two washers in mine also. Cant help LH side,it has held so far.
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Thanks ceevu, the O-ring is tight, but there's no inward pressure from the two thrust washers. The pink coloured plastic with the four holes has worn out (from the handle being spun on it for 19000kms) so I beefed it up by cutting out a cork-style gasket and putting it behind there, removing one thrust washer, tightens everything together and seems to work-for now.
 
Thank you john savage, I noticed the wear on the underlying plastic, made it all tighter with gasket material behind that. So far so good, for the left side petcock going to try a new fuel tap I bought. So many little things when previous owners don't deal with them, always something to consider.
 
thank you motosportz mike, you could message me with its price if you no longer have use for it?
I may have repaired the right side petcock-has two positions, on and off. Used gasket material behind the plastic, the low fuel light is still working. Purchased a universal fuel tap for the left side now, going to replace the screw fuel tap there.
 
these petcocks are defective design from husky i have had two go out. i want to keep the low fuel light or im gonna have to start carrying emergency fuel. the petcock is not avail any more i heard that they leak at the wires and to epoxy the wire to the petcock> might help
 
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