Timberline
Husqvarna
A Class
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Blowing head gasket in two easy steps
- Thread starter Timberline
- Start date
Husqvarna
Take it back to the dealer and don't pick it back up till it is right. If its a new bike like you say it is their issue not yours.
Hmm. You have ibeat, and a cable, so you should be able to get the fueling close based on recomendations in the ibeat thread. All you're missing is a laptop, and you should be able to pick up an old XP 32bit one for less than a JD tuner. Hell, I'll trade you my JD tuner for your ibeat cable.
What does the exhaust smell like? Does it smell like gasoline? Oil? Does it smell "sweet". You said grey/white, which would lead me to think coolant rather than oil/gasolilne.
What does the exhaust smell like? Does it smell like gasoline? Oil? Does it smell "sweet". You said grey/white, which would lead me to think coolant rather than oil/gasolilne.
DYNOBOB
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I copied this from your other thread... For the record, she's got ~2200 mi on the clock, an EMS airbox conversion and a Leo Vince Ti exhaust (among other physical accoutrements). P/U has been done, but no JD tuner and her first marriage was in New Mexico at lower elevation.
With those mods and nothing but the P/U the bike was almost certainly dead lean at high rpm/high load conditions. Resulting heat and pinging prob resulted in the blown head gasket, I recall a similar case on here a few yrs ago. A simple leak down test will answer that question, if you get bubbles from the radiator it's the head gasket. 60psi sounds low to me and there's no spec in the service manual, maybe someone with a stock gas tank could get you a number (I'd have to pull my safari tank).
In the long run you'll want your own iBeat cable. I'd buy that before a JD tuner or PCV. Add fuel and you'll be set. I would not ride the repaired bike until fueling is sorted.
I'd let the local shop you have confidence in do the head gasket (if they're willing).
Good luck!
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With those mods and nothing but the P/U the bike was almost certainly dead lean at high rpm/high load conditions. Resulting heat and pinging prob resulted in the blown head gasket, I recall a similar case on here a few yrs ago. A simple leak down test will answer that question, if you get bubbles from the radiator it's the head gasket. 60psi sounds low to me and there's no spec in the service manual, maybe someone with a stock gas tank could get you a number (I'd have to pull my safari tank).
In the long run you'll want your own iBeat cable. I'd buy that before a JD tuner or PCV. Add fuel and you'll be set. I would not ride the repaired bike until fueling is sorted.
I'd let the local shop you have confidence in do the head gasket (if they're willing).
Good luck!
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