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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Desparate times call for desparate measures.

BentAero

BentAero

Husqvarna
A Class
Stalled the bike on a nasty rock-covered hill last week. Bike falls on rider, specifically, direct hit by left radiator pinching left boot into rock. Radiator severely crunched.

The outer edge of the rad frame was pushed in about 1/2" to 3/4", crushing the first two rows of 'fins'. Fortunately, the coolant rows were not leaking, despite the first two rows nearly touching each other. I wish I had taken a photo before I started messing with it, but I never anticipated being able to straighten it. The black plastic shroud would no longer bolt on, the ear was pushed in so far.

Since the rad was pretty much useless as is, I started scheming how I could 'pull' the outer frame of the rad back out where it belonged.

Leverage man, we need leverage! It was time to McGyver it. Open up a gap between two sets of fins near the worst bent-in area, thread a steel cable thru it, clamp, cut a piece of 2X4 about 7.5" long, and get a big mother of a pry bar. Viola! good as new. Now if it will only stay leak-free!

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That is a great idea in a pinch. I sent mine out to a local radiator guy who only charged me $20.00 and came out fair.
 
agree.....nice post

Funny, this is the 3rd damaged LH radiator I've heard of on a Husky in the last month (mine being one of those 3)
 
Maybe that procedure would have helped my LH radiator out after I caught it on a cutoff tree. I bashed it pretty bad, enough to separate the solder on the bracket. I replaced the radiator w/new but it would be great to have a spare. Thanks for posting this up.

cheers,

Mike
 
miketv;44887 said:
Maybe that procedure would have helped my LH radiator out after I caught it on a cutoff tree. I bashed it pretty bad, enough to separate the solder on the bracket. I replaced the radiator w/new but it would be great to have a spare. Thanks for posting this up.

cheers,

Mike
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Send the bent one to Mylers and have it repaired and reinforced and then you have a spare. :thumbsup:
 
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