• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

Boiled the fuel in my 310 today......

ptkatoomer

ptkatoomer

Husqvarna
Pro Class
It was a hot (mid 90's, dusty ) technical single-track ride today. Hardest I've ridden the 310 (trying to keep up with my son on the 450 Katoomer :rolleyes: ). Hammered the clutch so bad it went away and when we stopped to let it cool down it was making the wierdest noise-sounded like the electronics were wiggin' out. Finally popped the breather tube off the gas cap and gas vapors came shooting out! Never had anything like that happen before.

I've got the cat and all removed and reflashed and all that but kept the little green valve that comes on the breather just so it still "looks" official-I don't think that this is just a one-way valve like you can get-it looks more EPA designed.

My question is this: can you harm the bike if you continue to ride it when it's like this? In a condition like this could a one-way valve cause you to ruprture the tank or anything like that? Any solutions other then stop abusing the scoot? (it's definitely geared a little tall 12-45 for this kind of work but I really like this as a compromise)
 
The heat was not excessive so it it a breathing issue only to my mind. We ride in that heat and more in OZ during summer and no problems with fuel. Can boil off the radiator a tad in hot weather with a lot of clutch feathering etc.
 
PT,
I did it in Tecate on my TE310, fuel was boiling out of the vent hose you could hear it percolating....I was behind some slower guys picking way down a long rocky downhill. engine heat rising.
Bike stalled at the bottom dead for about 1/2 hour and we did all the usual checks, until I realized it was vapor lock/fuel boiling..... put everything back together and waited for it cool off. Never had another issue all day.
After that I bought CV4 insulation stick-on and lined the entire bottom of my tank. It never happened again, I also did the same on my TXC310R and never had fuel boil again , cant say its because of the insulation stuff or not, I was always careful to keep air flow across the radiators, with forward movement from that day on.
 
PT let the tank breath man!! just run a vent hose in the usual fashion from your cap. I always use a long hose and drop it under the engine.
 
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