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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

cr125 had a drink for christmas

Aviduser

Aviduser

Husqvarna
AA Class
Went for a ride at a local pit today and put through a large puddle. Bike stalled out and wouldn't start. Towed it back home pulled the jug, crankcase was full of water. So I drained as much water as I could get out. Then sprayed the small end/big end and crankcase with wd40.

Plan on assembling it tommorow, flipping it over and cycling all the remains out through the spark plug hole.

I suspect the breather hose sucked up all the water. Will re-route it to the air box tommorow.

Piston/rings are only 20 hrs old, I'm hoping they're ok for now.

First time I've had any sort of water issue with a bike, but I know 2-strokes are pretty resilient for this sort of thing.

It will be fine to sit overnight as is right?

Oh and Merry X-mas everyone :thumbsup:
 
I have been on rides where we dumped water out of underwater bikes many times. Does not hurt them. Clear it out asap and get it running.
 
+1, flip it clear/pump/kickstart out the water and run it to blow and burn out all the water. Get heat in it to evap all the water as well. dont let it sit.
 
Got it together and running this morning, brought it up to full operating temp.

Want to get out for a ride to really clear it out. As is doesn't want to idle for too long.

Cleaned carb/Air filter, changed coolant and trans fluid. If I can't get out today I'll warm it up again this afternoon.
 
Aviduser;138009 said:
Got it together and running this morning, brought it up to full operating temp.

Want to get out for a ride to really clear it out. As is doesn't want to idle for too long.

Cleaned carb/Air filter, changed coolant and trans fluid. If I can't get out today I'll warm it up again this afternoon.
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Good deal :thumbsup:
A friend of mine as riding at a local park (prairie city), just going like mad and having a great time. Went off a jump and landed in 5 feet of water :excuseme:...$1000 dollars later he got the bike up and running again.
 
Daniel508s;138019 said:
Good deal :thumbsup:
A friend of mine as riding at a local park (prairie city), just going like mad and having a great time. Went off a jump and landed in 5 feet of water :excuseme:...$1000 dollars later he got the bike up and running again.
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Got out today, She still rips :thumbsup:

was that on a 2-stroke? I know if the piston try's to compress water it causes some problems.
 
Daniel508s;138019 said:
Good deal :thumbsup:
A friend of mine as riding at a local park (prairie city), just going like mad and having a great time. Went off a jump and landed in 5 feet of water :excuseme:...$1000 dollars later he got the bike up and running again.
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There is a part of Prairie City that has a 5' elevation change? :p

(that place is reasonably flat)
 
Coffee;138107 said:
There is a part of Prairie City that has a 5' elevation change? :p

(that place is reasonably flat)
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Very true, but yet it happened. :D It was a blind jump into a pond (YZ250).

The other crazy one I saw was...at La Grange a fellow MXer rode off the track (next to the starting gate) into a mud hole that soaked up about half his bike. It took about five guys (and about 50 watching) and a long rope to get him out. You had to be there with that one...:eek:
 
we always take care to only drown our bikes in cool clear mountain stream water. Takes about 10-15 minutes to de-drown and get going again. Never suffered any ill effects (except the derision of my riding buddies). Drowning it in muddy water would be worse, as would letting it sit and rust for a day or so.
 
good to hear you're all set :thumbsup:

i've dunked my TC250 in the drink pretty good twice... once was at the end of the season in a deep water crossing, stalled the bike midway through then had to walk it out. couldnt get it fired and had to use the airfilter as a sponge to soak all the water out of the airbox boot :( the bike eventually fired and got me out of the woods, but...

earlier that day i wrecked bad on a rocky downhill and f'd up my finger real good which ended up putting me out for a few months. needless to say, the poor TC just sat ALL winter alone in the garage, dirty, cold and unloved. come spring i dropped the oil to find a total milkshake. i was so pissed at myself for leaving the bike to sit all winter although i had no clue the motor still had water in it. ugh.

drained the milkshake and continued to fill/run/drain oil with some Seafoam in it. after about 4 cycles, the oil was clean as could be. the bike never knew anything was amiss, in fact, i accidentally fired the dam thing up with my HAND while slowly pushing the kickstart down during one of the oil drains. this was two seasons ago now, the bike has always run flawless every outing.

i love that TC, the damn thing is just as reliable as a hammer, even when abused... thanks Husky! :cheers:
 
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