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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Here's a dumb question...

East Longmeadow

East Longmeadow

Husqvarna
AA Class
So I bought an FMF Powerbomb header and a Powercore 4 silencer for my 2011 TC250. Went to swap it out and in the exhaust port is an aluminum washer/spacer (not a crush washer or gasket) that sits in between the stock header and motor. Do I need to reuse this with the new header? My instincts say yes, but the FMF header is quite bit longer from the bracket (holding the header to the motor) to the end of the header (exhaust port section). I'm afraid the washer will push the header forward away from the silencer, thus creating a weird union between the two. As of right now I mounted it up without it and everything lines up perfect. What say you CH crew?
Thanks!
 
I would say yes to reusing the washer if you can fit it in. It is there more for expansion purposes and less for sealing. How thick is the old washer?

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If its copper, and made to crush, then its also made to expand if its soft. I have a copper head gasket on my old Yamaha. When doing top end inspections, I would clean it up, turn the oven to 400, and bake it on a cookie sheet for about half an hour. A light spray coat of permatex copper spray, and it never leaked in over 10 re uses. My pipe has never been off, but if that's what I found in there, its what I would do.
 
My copper gasket is not crush-able, it might as well be made from aluminum (from a TC449). It is a solid ring that expands and contracts and keeps the stainless steel header from wearing against my aluminum head. If your header bolts to the head, then more than likely you do not have this gasket. If your header uses springs, then you more than likely will have this gasket.
 
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