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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Bugger! Where'd my electricity go???

H

Homerb

Husqvarna
AA Class
Well this is a pain. Went for a ride yesterday to put some more miles on my IMS tank, found some mud and got a bit dirty.
This morning gave the bike a really good wash. Got it pretty spotless.
Started and ran afterwards no problem.
Went to go for a ride this afternoon, bike started fine, but no instruments or lights.
Checked under the seat and 20 amp fuse had blown.
Replaced it, went to start the bike and heard an audible pop.
Now the bikes completely dead. No lights, starter, no nothing. Dead as a dodo.
Checked battery and 14 volts at the terminals.
If the bike had a main fuse, thats where I'd look, but according to the manual there is no main fuse.
What gives???
 
Found it. The main fuse is located on the starter solenoid. Strange the manual makes no mention of it at all. Had to ring the local Husky dealer to find out about it. It was blown. The cause, I had pinched the external fuel pump wiring when mounting the pump. Rewired an all good.
 
Damn. Spoke too soon. My 20 amp lighting fuse keeps blowing. Sometimes the 20 amp main fuse blows instead. If I remove the lighting fuse, the bike will run, just no lights or instruments. Its not the fuel pump wiring, because its been fixed and it would blow the 15 amp fuel pump fuse anyway. I hate electrics!
 
Found 3 exposed wires around the tail light assembly. Hopefully its sorted now. Had another really strange issue with the main fuse. Tried a number of new fuses, sometimes they worked mostly not. Cut open the fuse holder to see if there was a break in the fuse connection. Nope all good. Fitted a glass inline fuse holder with a spade connector on each end and it works perfectly! Still no idea why the spade fuses wouldn't work.
 
Yeah, knew about this Bob. Fortunately it was the lighting fuse I kept blowing, not the fuel pump fuse.
 
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