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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Hole in exhaust pipe of "new" bike

Herpaderp

Herpaderp

Husqvarna
Hello there!

I was hoping that my debut on this forum would be with the pictures of my new 2009 SM610ie which im currently customizing. Its the first husky I ever owned. Unfortunately, upon dismantling happily ever after, I found this huge hole (see attachment) in the exhaust pipe! I bought this bike off of a garage, but this hole looks handmade! I probably have to call them to account for this? Checking the bottom of the pipes for handmade holes is not exactly the thing I look out for when buying a bike..
 

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That makes sense.

I don't know if I'd go buying a new mid-pipe quite yet...should be easy enough to have a patch welded on (and it's on the underside...and shouldn't end up unsightly anyway.)
 
Don't need a new pipe... I have an 07, and had a bung welded in mine for wideband purposes.

If you have the heat shield peg still on the heat shield.. get it welded back on.

Also, all of the heat shield mounting points on mine cracked.

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Well now ive got a hole in my exhaust pipe.
The bottom mounting bolt fell out on a ride today and the vibration of the loose heat shield snapped the top mount off.
 
Haha welcome to the club! The surface around the mount actually was charred (by fumes) so I assume the quality of the weld there just isnt the most exciting and it gradually broke off. But anyways, thanks for the input! Everything is welded nice and smooth now. I anyway planned to keep the (IMO ugly) shield removed and simply use some exhaust heat wrap. Im still going to screw on the front heat plate though.
 
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