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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Fuel Line and water pump hose rubbing

S

scratchpad

Husqvarna
A Class
13 txc310r

Typical clearance issues and i put tank spacers on. I bought the bike new and un-registered, however, it was a test bike from Husky. They put this braided plastic mesh covering on the hoses to protect from the rubbing due to clearance issues. Well this covering is ruining the head cover. Rubbing the hell out of it. Its just the red covering. Whats a new head cover run $ ?

Even w/o the covering on the fuel line it looks as if the fuel line is barely long enough. Sits right on top of the head cover. I could probably pull it and go to a hydraulics store and get longer line. Whats a good recommendation? I.D. and O.D.??

Same thing with my water pump hose as well. It was previously rubbing on a bolt too. Do the aftermarket hoses route slightly different to prevent that? Samson and the like??
 
coolant line from pump chafe on fuel tap, mine did the same even with the added ZipTy spacers. I added a slit piece of coolant/red hose over the contact point taped it over with good quality stretch electric tape and let it touch, which goes against my normal process, I noticed that when the tank was full heavy and expanded that side lobe hit harder than when some fuel was used up.....using as flush hardware as you can near any of the chafe points helps to give more clearance along with the ZipTy spacers with the OEM rubber washer on top of them. I glued them all onto the frame studs. It just became one of the chafe inspection points I would keep an eye on before rides and during general maintenance...one of those dumb idiosyncrasies of the brand. As for the crossover fuel line I just never bothered with it, yea it rubs...but for me its a dirtbike not a show bike, so again I just let it go as long as no serious damage was occurring. Mine had CV4 silly-cone hoses.
 
Rotate the hoses slightly, use just front spacers so the petcock and tank tilt up more than just leveling it. I use 1/2" ID steel washers to space the tank since they are 2mm and can stack them better to customize how it needs to be on a specific bike I use 3 +rubber). Use a 3MM allen button head screw where the offending hex head screw is under tank that hits the rad hose. I am regularly trying to fit a 2-3mm screwdriver blade or tip of a zip tie, etc... within the petcock to water pump clearance to test clearance and always check under tank as well as entire engine for leaks or issues at every stop..

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/radiator-hose-a-tight-fit.31649/
 
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