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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Decatting 08 TE450 Muffler

maddog82

maddog82

Husqvarna
AA Class
I decided to try to decat my muffler. I just cut through at the weld with a hack saw. It was a lot of work, but I did not have any good sawzall blades. Now I'll have to get it welded back together.

Had to cut through three layers, the outer skin, the mesh and the inner pipe that the cat is attached to.
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This morning I found a fellow with a machine shop in his basement a few miles from my home. He TIG welded it back together while I waited for $40. Looks like the factory weld. Had it back on the bike by noon. Sounds just a little louder. Picked up some 2.2K resistors at Radio Shack and ordered a O2 bung plug on EBAY. Should have this thing powered up for under $50.
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Pretty cool. I would change those afterthought turn signals that husky designers let rest on the pipe. I had wondered how large that cat was inside my factory pipe. How much does it weigh?
 
268fords said:
Pretty cool. I would change those afterthought turn signals that husky designers let rest on the pipe. I had wondered how large that cat was inside my factory pipe. How much does it weigh?
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I'd say it weighs about a pound. I'm surprised the turn signals have survived this long.
 
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