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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Head Case!

BiG DoM

BiG DoM

Husqvarna
AA Class
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Ok so had the tank off my Husky TE610, RHS radiator loose etc to reseal the leaking valve inspection covers (notorious culprits, I learn the hard way!). Rechecked clearances while about it as well as the timing chain (5 clicks). Then I thought while I have all this access why not whip off the zorst headers and mid pipe and send for ceramic coating ... no sooner said than done. For those not aware Powerkote ceramic coating is state of the art and allows cooler running, better gas scavenging, corrosion protection etc ... oh and looks cool. I have done headers on three BMW's and been converted ever since - you can literally grip the boxer headers in your hands less than 5 minutes after stopping! Ok so I have seen the black finish on zorsts and does look grand when new but does not last like the silver chrome finish due I believe to the fact that the silver actually has metal oxides in the finish making it tougher (I have used the black on valve covers which seem fine) ... so decided to go for the silver. When new it is buffed bright and then dulls with time to a bit more of an aluminium/anodised look - will though polish right back up like metal chrome with Autosol if one wants. My feeling is the anodised look will be great with the zorst heat shield and alu endcan. When I took off the headers I also noticed a few loose rivets in the lower end of my endcan that I had decatted some months back. Well drilled them out and then thought why not send the internal through-flow perforated pipe and endpiece as well - and this will help with cool running and reduce heat to the Giant Loop (they use a brown colour for the inside of the pipes and endcan)
 

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looks great!

i would have taken the opportunity whilst off to get rid of that butt-ugly aluminium heat shield. maybe grind off the mount points and add an aftermarket carbon jobbie.
 
bensl said:
looks great!

i would have taken the opportunity whilst off to get rid of that butt-ugly aluminium heat shield. maybe grind off the mount points and add an aftermarket carbon jobbie.
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yeah - I had thought of having it also ceramic coated black at the same time ... what are the alternatives that are relatively plug and play?
 
not sure about the plug and play... when i had mine apart i ground off all the mounting points on the midpipe and covered it in exhaust wrap. it definately looked the part but the wrap wore through where my leg must have been rubbing fairly quickly. i have now ordered an universal pipe guard to use over that spot which hopefully will make the wrap last a lot longer. i might even try running the smaller guard only.
 
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