Centerline
Husqvarna
AA Class
Granted it has only 1,400 miles / 60 hours, but the radiator coolant fluid had been the machine for the last 7 years.....
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
7 year old coolant, TE450
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OlderHuskyRider
Husqvarna
Pro Class
That's crazy, especially since my 2010's been thru at least 2 gallons of coolant.....
Centerline
Husqvarna
AA Class
The coolant looked nearly fresh with just a small amount of tiny sand-like grit that I guess could be "casting sand"?
It appeared to be just like the similar tiny grit I observed in the first coolant change from a KTM 950 Adventure I used to own. A KTM dealer tech told me the grit was casting sand used in the cooling system manufacturing process. Don't have any reason to think it is not true, the grit was not there at the next change of coolant.
It appeared to be just like the similar tiny grit I observed in the first coolant change from a KTM 950 Adventure I used to own. A KTM dealer tech told me the grit was casting sand used in the cooling system manufacturing process. Don't have any reason to think it is not true, the grit was not there at the next change of coolant.
Centerline
Husqvarna
AA Class
When you remove the lower cylinder drain bolt ....
And remove the radiator cap, it pees a stream
I use distilled water to flush several times, rocking the bike left and right, getting on the bike and bouncing hard, taking off the lower hose from the left radiator, turning the engine over a bit, waiting, drip drip..... The quantity each time is just barely over a quart. It is interesting before draining the system to observe the water flow into the right radiator from the cursed T - fitting.....
The flow jets into the top of the right radiator from that T - fitting, and the photo was taken at a 1750 rpm idle.
And remove the radiator cap, it pees a stream
I use distilled water to flush several times, rocking the bike left and right, getting on the bike and bouncing hard, taking off the lower hose from the left radiator, turning the engine over a bit, waiting, drip drip..... The quantity each time is just barely over a quart. It is interesting before draining the system to observe the water flow into the right radiator from the cursed T - fitting.....
The flow jets into the top of the right radiator from that T - fitting, and the photo was taken at a 1750 rpm idle.
4stroker
Husqvarna
B Class
What do you prefer, G-12 or a good conventional coolant like Paraflu, Castrol Freeze....?
Centerline
Husqvarna
AA Class
Actually, I hadn't thought of checking the pH. Have test strips for my swimming pool...... The sample of old radiator coolant measures 8.2 pH. The replacement coolant is a shade over 8.4
4stroker
Husqvarna
B Class
G-12 is a organic coolant.
I prefer the Evans, but I have a lot of Paraflu, Volvo Penta coolant and organic G-12.
Centerline
Husqvarna
AA Class
Posted in thread earlier about the sand-like grit I found in the flushed original coolant from my '07 TE 450. That same ? type of "sand" in my '05 KTM 950 ADV, leftover casting sand, caused failed water pump shaft seals in numerous KTM machines a few years back.
The grit would score and degrade the water pump shaft seal, coolant would enter engine crankcase and internal engine problems would begin.
The grit would score and degrade the water pump shaft seal, coolant would enter engine crankcase and internal engine problems would begin.