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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Funk in my coolant

rocko

rocko

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi all,

I drained my radiators and replaced the fluid with water wetter. When I drained the fluid, it was not really bright green like brand new coolant, especially in the reservoir. The next morning I looked at the jug that I collected the coolant in, and it had a brownish sludge that had settled at the bottom, with nice green coolant on top.

Any ideas on why this is?

Thanks in advance.
 
I went through the same thing. I posted all my pics and findings on some other thread, but I'm on my phone right now and can't find it. I too noticed oil in my coolant. I figured it was either the head gasket or water pump. The water pump seals were a few dollars from Halls cycles so I started there. I popped the water pump off and changed the seal and oring (maybe 2 orings?? I forget). Put it back together and problem solved. Cost about $5 and took an hour or 2. Coolant is cleaner that a sweadish nun. Got about 10rides on bike since the repairs, and its all good.

I did scew up though (and its all documented in my original post). I didnt back off the cam chain tensioner and it made it hard to slide the water pump back on. That was 30min of extra jacking around.
 
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