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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Hello :) First post question

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Marky

Husqvarna
Hello guys, I've only just found this forum, so I'll say hello first! I'm nr Oxford in the UK and have a 2008 TE 450. Only had it since last summer but having a whale of a time on it!

Anyway, I hope you dont mind, but Ive got a question for you all. I always thought my fuel tank range was ridiculous (1 - 1.5 hours and started coughing & spluttering). To start with, I thought it was an electrical fault etc as there was always fuel still in the tank. I only realised it was definately a fuel problem when I had the tank off (still hooked up) and moved it back & forth, with the bike spluttering, then running again smoothly as I moved it. My problem is, there seems to be approx 2 litres of fuel left in the 'wings' of the tank that isn't being used at all! Is this a common problem do we know? If so, is there a fix?! :)

I've considered lifting the front of the tank slightly, but it seems like that wouldn't work either, as the bottoms of the 'wings' are quite a bit lower that the fuel outlet.

PLEASE, could someone help me? :)

Thanks!

Mark
 
Ahh, thanks very much! That's exactly what I needed fella! Took it apart today & found that was exactly what had happened. My only problem now is repairing the damage I had to inflict removing the pump assembly.....typically, 5 of the bolts came out perfectly, the final one just turned the captive nut :( Had to resort to a bit of butchery to get a spanner onto it.....the plastic's a bit thin in that area now (and has actually gone through on 1 small area), so have to find a way of thickening it up/repairing it....any suggestions?? I think I'll have to try 'welding' it with some odd plastic. Same with the captive nut - think by welding some plastic round that it'll stay put, or is there some resin I could use on the tank/nut to hold it?

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
 
Marky said:
is there some resin I could use on the tank/nut to hold it?

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
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Check with a local aviation supply shop, where they would sell specific hardware, gaskets, etc...
Ask for a product called 'Pro-Seal' or 'PRC' (2 part epoxy, brown or grey in color - smells like sulfur). Its commonly used as a fuel tank sealant in aircraft wings.
Its a buggar to work with and requires strict adherance to instructions to set up properly, not too mention it is very hard to clean up after before it sets up - WEAR gloves!
 
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