• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 startvation on down-hill?

Those aircraft fuel fittings look the business, pity they can't be seen
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If you go for it and it works good could you post a few pics of the process as I'm sure others will find it really useful. Might be an entry for the technical section.
 
There is a fix for the plastic elbow, Uptite does it. Requires threading the hole and adding a brass fillting vice the plastic one. Key is when you remove the tank, lift it up slowly and slip your hand in and disconnect the electrical first, then dios connect the fuel line. It will drip gas out of the red elbow, so try to have the tank as empty as possible. The IMS tank has a much better, lower and more flat FP mount. I will probably go to that tanksoon. The stock tank size is bad enough, but the fact you can't use anywhere form .5 to a gallon at times while off roading, what the bike was made for, is unsat. These were purpose built enduro bikes, not crossers, this tank and FP design are the weak links in an othewise stellar package.
 
I agree, the tank range is sucky. I'll set the trip and at 50 steady road miles I'm looking for gas. I know it's a different league but my ZX9 was nearer the ton. If you're running off road I can really see the issue. I've read many conflicting reports on the IMS tanks, esp re fit - not suiting frame etc etc. Worth researching. It's a shame, if the stock tank just carried another litre or so it would make all the difference.
 
I'm working an an auxiliary tank solution that will solve the problem and not make the bike look like the Elephant Man. I'll post up pics and info when it ready.
 
moto66 said:
I agree, the tank range is sucky. I'll set the trip and at 50 steady road miles I'm looking for gas. I know it's a different league but my ZX9 was nearer the ton. If you're running off road I can really see the issue. I've read many conflicting reports on the IMS tanks, esp re fit - not suiting frame etc etc. Worth researching. It's a shame, if the stock tank just carried another litre or so it would make all the difference.
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Yeah, I have followed the IMS threads pretty close. Some variance on size, but nothing a heat gun can't cure. I like the fuel pump location, it is on the bottom and flat, not angled. My dealer has been real cool about my "incident" and I am waiting to see what they say. I am convinced somebody didn't really think this through or it's like someone else said, they had moto crosser on the brain with 20 min heats and plenty of gas! There is no way to solve this with the stock tank, it is what it is. Best you can do it safety wire your fuel pump and plan on about 1.5 gallons of riding with the stock tank.......maybe

And I hear ya, my 950SM gets a solid 40mpg with crazy right wrist and all!
 
Just remembered replying to a post recently, (morris's?) whereby the idea was to set up a 'fake' secondary tailpipe in which you could store a fuel container. Prob a lot more work than just fitting an aftermarket tank but a novel idea nonetheless?

I'm working an an auxiliary tank solution that will solve the problem and not make the bike look like the Elephant Man - that's amusing!
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moto66 said:
Just remembered replying to a post recently, (morris's?) whereby the idea was to set up a 'fake' secondary tailpipe in which you could store a fuel container. Prob a lot more work than just fitting an aftermarket tank but a novel idea nonetheless?

I'm working an an auxiliary tank solution that will solve the problem and not make the bike look like the Elephant Man - that's amusing! :D
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Yeah, that's me. The over-size tank would be easy, but the faux exhaust will be a fun project. I looked at the over-size tanks today and they're not exactly E-Man ugly, but.... I really like the slim look of these bikes. I want to preserve the look.
 
Alot of the KTM 950/990 crowd have done that. They swap the exhaust set up to a 2 into 1 exhaust, then gut the other can and make a tank out of it and plumb it in. Not too much work and they are getting about 1 gallon out of the stock exhaust can. And the bike looks stock!
 
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