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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Front Brake Failure

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dibblego

Husqvarna
A Class
I have had the front brake progressively fail, where now I can squeeze the lever as if the bleed nipple is open. I have changed over the master cylinder and reverse-bled with no difference, so I am starting to suspect the seals in the caliper.

Can anyone suggest any other possibility and what might be required to fix it? Cheers.
 
Here's something to try. Put the bike on a stand, turn in the front brake adjusting screw on the front brake lever all the way. Now back it off 1 turn. Take the cap off the master cylinder resevour and make sure it's 2/3 full. Put the cap back on. Now grab a roll of black tape or a rubber band, pull the front brake lever in 1/2 way and tape or rubber band it in that position overnight. Tomorrow you can free the brake lever and you should be able to bleed the brake from the master cylinder side. Sometimes I find it necessary to do it this way to get tiny bubbles out that are very stubborn. Your caliper is most likely fine. Good luck!
 
sounds advice. had an issue bleeding the 6 pots on my ninja. I have used this method many times with success. but I tape the lever fully to the bars. it's important that when you go back to it in the morning release the lever and leave it 10 mins. this allows the bubble to make their way to the top of the reservoir.
 
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