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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Air/idle mixture screw maintenance

BSBen

BSBen

Husqvarna
AA Class
Just a quick heads-up since I didn't see it addressed anywhere else.

I'll be doing periodic maintenance to my air screws from now on - removal, cleaning, replacement. It seems to be a pretty trivial thing and can save you lots of pain.

I found mine seized recently (never had that happen before with a brass screw in an aluminum thread). I don't know why/how it happened, but light tapping didn't loosen it, nor did repeated freezing/heating cycles, nor did penetrating oil. I finally tried to back it out with EZ-outs, and just wound up pulling chunks of brass out of the head of the screw with the threads remaining firmly in place. SO frustrating...

I finally had to go get a set of really small Dremel bits, dig as much of the brass out as I could while trying not to damage the threads too much, pick the remaining brass out with dental picks, and chase the threads with a M6x0.75 tap that I was lucky enough to find locally. It was hours of painstaking work with the specter of messing up the carb and paying $$$ for a new one lurking over my shoulder.

YMMV, but it may be good to keep this often-overlooked piece in mind at maintenance time.
 
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