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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC Cleaning a pitted dirty motor.

HS507

HS507

Husqvarna
A Class
Ive used a defreaser but need something a little better. Iven cleaner? A mild miratic acid?
 
After I get the big mud off I spray Armour All extreme wheel & tire cleaner on it, wait a bit and rinse. It works great.
 
I'm gonna have to second the wd 40. The trick is using it before the bike is dirty and everything practically rinses off. But it works awesome as a cleaner as well. I get the non aerosol kind and it's way better
 
I wash my bikes, it was a bike i bought from one of those type that ride and put away wet and fill it with gas and ride again. It had low hours and decent price, he just never cleaned under bike very well. Theres 2 opposing philosophies to bike care. Believe it or not ive seen riders only clean filter and change oil, leaving chain alone, dont wash it well and only fix when broke and seems they arent to bad off from guys like me that maintain alot. Weird.
Anyways, i use industrial degreaser and wash off, i tried the crc brake cleaner, worked great. Spraying bike down with wd before a race is a waste of money in my opinion, nothing can stand up to harescramble in ohio, wash it after.
 
What works for some doesn't work for others I suppose. With the clay we have here in northern Nevada I've literally buried my bike in mud to where the front wheel don't spin anymore and I have to scrape it out and I can vouch that the wd before helps in my case cause I've done it with and without and numerous times. I don't bathe the bike in it but anything metal besides the brakes (obviously) gets a light coat. 3x easier to clean up after. Not maintaining a bike is a waste of money imo.
 
In clay type mud I can see how WD40 before hand would be helpfull. Clay actually stains if left on for long periods of time.
 
yes it does. Luckily I've managed to keep my 15 te300 pretty spotless but that stuff can't sit for more than a day or too and it'll stain that quick
 
87husky500xc said:
yes it does. Luckily I've managed to keep my 15 te300 pretty spotless but that stuff can't sit for more than a day or too and it'll stain that quick
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maybe someday they will come up with a coating or something to protect the metal...like paint? ;)
 
Any color besides white! There's a few small stains on the inside of my frame but after all it is a dirt bike. I'm just kind of OCD about the 15 cause I bought brand new I think. There's only so much you can do when a bought used bike already has its scars but being the owner since day one can help prevent a lot of crap. They just need to go back to black cases!
 
HS507 said:
Interesting. I will ask about it at local auto parts store
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If it's pitting on the aluminum, a good cleaning with a rag coated in the oil will remove the aluminum oxide that has developed. You would want to use a degreaser afterwards to remove the excess oil. It won't remove any deep pitting, but the natural occurring oxide will be removed.
 
All great ideas. I bought my 2016 brand new, 6mo later it looks 2 years old. HS racing is brutal on bikes, and i maintain mine pretty decent. But, again i know a guy that lets his go and cleans it when it needs repaired and he does just fine, best HS racer in my class, been at it a long time. Old school guys coated bikes in oil and let dirt coat protect it.
 
Clean is faster! We are talking about high dollar Technical marvels of mechanical engineering. Treat them right & they work better. Cleaned, lubed & adjusted......Then beat the snot out of them.
 
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