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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Has anybody tried this fuel pump?

I would not recommend the cheaper pumps, I used a CAcycleWorks pump and it lasted 2.5 years (about 15000 miles). I believe that dirt bikes place a very heavy toll on fuel pumps, via heat and vibration. I expect cheaper pumps to fail quickly.
 
Thank you for your reply OlderHuskyRider.

I might just bite the bullet and buy OEM one. If I don't get any reply's with some good known fuel pumps.
 
Dimas said:
Thank you for your reply OlderHuskyRider.

I might just bite the bullet and buy OEM one. If I don't get any reply's with some good known fuel pumps.
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Can you buy the OEM pump individually, and is it $150?

I recommend the CAcycleWorks pump.
 
OlderHuskyRider said:
Can you buy the OEM pump individually, and is it $150?

I recommend the CAcycleWorks pump.
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You can't buy the pump individually you have to buy the whole assembly $600.00+

For some reason Ca-Cycleworks told me that their fuel pump wouldn't work on my bike when I spoke to them over the phone.

Thank you all for your reply's!
 
stushusky said:
For $35 what's there to loose? Carry a backup just in case and try it.
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I cannot imagine carrying a backup pump everywhere. I guess if the bike ONLY sees track time a cheap pump may be an option. I for one need my bike to run no matter where it is.

I know cheap (price) does not always indicate cheap (quality). And likewise expensive doesn't always mean quality... However, what kind of pump are you getting for $35?
 
bigmo said:
I cannot imagine carrying a backup pump everywhere. I guess if the bike ONLY sees track time a cheap pump may be an option. I for one need my bike to run no matter where it is.

I know cheap (price) does not always indicate cheap (quality). And likewise expensive doesn't always mean quality... However, what kind of pump are you getting for $35?
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I do trail riding and would hate to have a fuel pump go out in the middle of nowhere. Luckily my pump went out on me when riding close to home.

I pulled the fuel pump out, its made in "CHINA" that's the OEM one, it lasted 1.5 years.

I just wanted some feed back on the reliability of a $30 fuel pump and if anyone had used the one I posted from ebay.
 
The Huskys use a 30mm pump which is tiny, and the tolerances are tiny, the least little bit of gunk or varnish will make them fail.

I had switched to a 38mm pump 3 years ago when my OEM pump was so varnished it would not work. In July 2013, I hit a buried water pipe, a really sharp hit at speed, and the resulting slam killed my 38mm CAcycleWorks pump. I rode bitch on my buddy's carbed Beta, then rode it alone to an auto store, bought a pump for a Toyota Tercel/Camry/Tacoma and put it in, back at the bike, and rode it out. That was 8 months ago. I wish I would have been carrying the replacement with me, would have saved a couple of hours of riding out. The pump only weighs maybe half a pound.

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Dimas said:
You can't buy the pump individually you have to buy the whole assembly $600.00+

For some reason Ca-Cycleworks told me that their fuel pump wouldn't work on my bike when I spoke to them over the phone.

Thank you all for your reply's!
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I would ask them what the specific reason that the pump they are offering (they offer 2 for the Huskys) makes it not work. The 38mm pump I bought from them wasn't designed for my bike but I made it work, and glad I did, since I had been running a 38mm, I was ready to plug a new 38mm right into the old one's place.
 
bigmo said:
I cannot imagine carrying a backup pump everywhere. I guess if the bike ONLY sees track time a cheap pump may be an option. I for one need my bike to run no matter where it is.
I know what you mean about carrying a spare but some guys do, It has been the weakest link for some. That said there are a thousand other things that can fail that would mean pushing or towing your bike out of the woods or mountain because you can't carry spares for everything. I was thinking more like keep a spare in you tool box back at the truck/van, if you're really stuck a buddy can go get it.
I can't believe no one on here hasn't tried one of those cheap pumps
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stushusky said:
Why is my post showing like that!?
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Looks like there is an extra quote in there.

I get your feeling - really. We all have hundreds of parts on our bikes that we don't carry spares for and any one of them can ruin a week-long trip (and certainly leave one stranded 50 miles from the trailer).

The point is, we try to mitigate those risks as much as possible. Between 6-7 riders, just about any typical conceivable point of failure is in someones waist ot fender pack. Of all the tens of thousands of off-road miles, only twice did we have to tow out a bike. That is pretty dang good!

I am big on using lower priced options on things that are not a critical breaking point on the bike - especially when there is ample evidence to prove their function is perfectly adequate. Ie, I switched to Tusk brake pads several years ago - 1/2 the price with zero downside. There are dozens of similar examples.

These dollar store pumps may very well be suitable. I would have zero problems running an OEM replacement auto pump as I can assume (that's a big word here) that one can expect reliable service. The major retailers have a vested interest (and large influence) in maintaining some level of quality control. These Chinese products slung on Ebay and other independent sales outlets are highly questionable.

So essentially, why introduce risk where it is not really warranted? Nothing more. In a couple of years, with a solid track record (even anecdotal), maybe it will be the pump to have.

I personally had a minor issue with my 449 getting a hunk of grit in my injector which came VERY close to leaving me stranded. I realized how very delicate these injection systems are and took immediate action to correct it.
 
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