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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Have you tried this?

Not sure where to buy in the USA? Their store locator does not seem to be responding..
 
I used to use this on my TTR-600 back in the day, It was a nightmare to start. From memory it's just ethanol in an aeresol can, works great in orange cannons too! Put some ethanol in a spray bottle and mist it in the air box, has the same affect. Just watch for backfires, I saw some interesting things with that bike, my eyebrows still havnt grown back properly!
 
Starting fluid is a common starting aid product that contains 20% or more of ether in the US and is called starting fluid, not "start you Bastard" or whatever...:)
Found in big grocery and hardware stores etc. Great help if not used in excess especially on high compression engines, because you can do damage .
 
Xcuvator said:
Starting fluid is a common starting aid product that contains 20% or more of ether in the US and is called starting fluid, not "start you Bastard" or whatever...:)
Found in big grocery and hardware stores etc. Great help if not used in excess especially on high compression engines, because you can do damage .
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Haha....reminds me of the time a friend of mine was rebuilding a POS diesel engine in a Cadillac. He couldn't get it to start, so he took a can of starting fluid and sprayed just a tiny bit into the air cleaner. The car started, so he slammed the hood. Unfortunately the can of starting fluid was still on top of something in the engine compartment area, not far from the air cleaner intake. It got tipped, crushed and ruptured, also jamming the hood and making it hard to get opened again. You probably know what happened to the motor.:censored::cry:
 
Not that good for the rubber components like the intake boot. Also eats the oil on your filter and then when you start the bike it sucks in the dirty residue coming off the filter.
 
I use it a lot, its great, but only on my clapped out paddock bomb and an old David Brown tractor. I wouldn't use it on a new engine or any of my bikes.
 
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