• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Case half sealant - What have you used?

AgentSmith

AgentSmith

Husqvarna
AA Class
The manual calls for Loctite 5205 sealant for the case halves.

Is this what you guys have used in the past? I can't even find a seller in the US.

I always have used ThreeBond 1194 or 1207 on case halves and never had an issue...
 
I use any high temp RTV I can find on my gasketless centercases. Never had a problem with it yet.:thumbsup: In the past I have used Kawasakibond, Yamabond, Threebond also.
 
My understanding after talking with Ron Black awhile back is that the good stuff that made the Bond products (Yamabond Threebond etc) good are no longer in the recipe because of CA envionmental regs. He was hoarding his last tubes with the old ingredients.
It appears to me that the trend is to water soluble (green) sealants that take several days to cure.
 
Xcuvator said:
My understanding after talking with Ron Black awhile back is that the good stuff that made the Bond products (Yamabond Threebond etc) good are no longer in the recipe because of CA envionmental regs. He was hoarding his last tubes with the old ingredients.
It appears to me that the trend is to water soluble (green) sealants that take several days to cure.
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Ahhhh...that would be the 1194 that I have been hoarding...it is a solvent based natural rubber that cures fast without air.

I guess my real question is, do you have to use the LocTite stuff for any reason other than that's what the Tech writer from Husky said to use? I love the 1194 and would huff it in a paper bag if it wasn't so damned expensive...
 
I use Yamabond. I have had RTV fail and suck oil from the crancase. But you have to use Loctite because Husky is going to stand over your shoulder and watch you... ;)
 
The bond stuff is very good. I used to love kawasakibond but that product has been gone for many years. I once used it as a headgasket with nothing else. My present favorite is "MOTOGREY" made by Permatex. It is available at many auto parts stores. I would never use RTV on anything important. It was never made to be a gasket material only a sealant and fuel gradually disolves it. The MOTOGREY feels and acts like the bond products when applied. It has not failed me yet.
 
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