• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

All 2st DIY Pipe Guard

KXcam22

KXcam22

Husqvarna
AA Class
I thought I would post this DIY for a kevlar/fiberglass pipe guard I built a few years ago. Ended up building 7 of them. It was very simple and highly successful. I did not use the high temp resin, which might be better.
1. With the pipe on the bike, mark an outline of the area to be protected.
2. Remove the pipe and wrap it in saran wrap.
3. Using fiberglass or kevlar roving, fiberglass the marked area making sure to overlap. I tried to end up with at leat 1/4" thick. I used kevlar roving for the main part just because I had some, but the fiberglass ones I made worked as well or better. I made a thin shell then removed it from the pipe once cured. With the shell on the bench I then built up the FG layers. Roving works the best and is very string.
4. Once cured, trim the outsides and smooth the edges with a file. The finished guard should clip onto the pipe. In final form it gets attached with 2 large hose clamps.
5. Paint the outside and put a layer of tinfoil on the inside for a heat sheild.

When the pipe gets hot you will smell fiberglass resin. This goes away after 2 or 3 rides. Since this guard is so strong I would suggest glassing in a mount so that you can attach it to the frame for additional support. Here are some pics. Cam._0021_resize.JPG_0022_resize.JPG_0023_resize.JPGPG_s.jpg
 
Vey cool. I may give that a try one day. I even have some Kevlar if that can be added to the mix :thinking:. Man I'm starting to itch just thinking about fiberglass!
 
Very cool. I made a clutch cover guard the same way for my KTM and a pipe guard for my Husky is on the to-do list for this winter.
 
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