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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Collecting a little more debris 449/511

Tinken

Tinken

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Tooling around with a Hiflow paper filter on my desk, I noticed a small disk magnet would fit in the recessed end of the filter. The drain plug comes with a small magnet attached to the end of it, but oil must randomly flow past it for it to collect the debris. All oil passes by the paper filter before it goes into the engine, so I decided to see if a much stronger magnet would pick up the very fine metallic particles which made it past the first two filters. Since the particles which cause wear in our engines are small enough to pass straight through paper filters, I figured an additional step of protection couldn’t hurt.

I ordered several sizes and thicknesses through K&J Magnetics
and found that the 5/8” x 3/16” Neodymium disc magnet ($1.96) was a perfect fit. This magnet has a 12.74lb pull force compared to the drain plug magnet which has a 2lb pull.
 

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Haha, I did. I made a suspension error which caused me to wash out last Saturday in the desert at 50+ mph. When I came to, I had several CORE unlimited drivers standing over me. She is nice and scratched up now, and needs Ty Davis + radiator guards. Gotta find a new location for that horn. I do keep my bikes pretty clean though :)
 
I decided to build a custom oil filter cover for the 449/511 platform that will have a much larger magnet attached. Removing the cover will automatically remove the oil filter.
Earlier model Husky magnetic covers can be purchased from Zipty racing.

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Tinken said:
I decided to build a custom oil filter cover for the 449/511 platform that will have a much larger magnet attached. Removing the cover will automatically remove the oil filter.
Earlier model Husky magnetic covers can be purchased from Zipty racing.

znw-oil-filter-cover.jpg
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When will these be available?
 
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