• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

I hate these hose clamps....

Johnrg

Johnrg

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Loading up for a ride this morning and poked around seeing what clearances were and fuel started pouring out the hose. Thought the worst that the petcock had impacted the water pump and fractured. Just what I needed to deal with. Luckily that band clamp was the culprit, just loose enough to rotate, but a PIA to remove and replace with a Zip tie.

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i hate those things too (forgot the proper name) but there is a special tool that makes removal/installation easier.

i would maybe use some safety wire or a different style clamp on that. if the ziptie plastic or teeth aren't good quality, it may let go on you. (happens all the time to me with the cheap bucket of ties you see at hardware stores)
 
Luckily that band clamp was the culprit, just loose enough to rotate, but a PIA to remove and replace with a Zip tie.
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To the best of my knowledge there are only 2 people in the world that like those clamps. The guy who sells them and the engineer who specs them.
 
Yes... From the Sears Buckets of ties I thought a good value till I noted how scrawny most were. May simply add a second tie for security/redundancy in the interim and always carry them in my tool wrap.
 
Was a Sharkbite. At some point after a dealer service I found my fuel hose stretched to the end of that barb since they placed the tank on the spark plug and wires and didn't route the hose properly. That's when this clamp was damaged/loosened.
 
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