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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

IMS 3 Gal tank for 2010 TE310

firebolter

firebolter

Husqvarna
AA Class
I am going on a trip to Colorado with 5 buddies for 7 days of good ole trail riding. We are staying out in Crested Butte. I figured, I should go ahead and get the 3 gallon tank. That will go along way and keep me up to the same fuel range as my buddies who are all riding smokers.

Installed the new tank this morning. Pretty straight forward and the fit was good. Since I wired my fuel pump into it's mount, no movement there! Tank went right on, no forcing and fit good. What I couldn't help noticing is how much capacity was given up by the shape of the front end of the tank. I mean they could have easily made the front go down and "act" as the shrouds rather than just "jut" out the top front, leaving the radiators exposed. Easily, they could have gotten another .5 gallon to .75 if they would have added the lower part of the front of the tank to tie into the radiator lower mount where the stock black plastic scoop/shroud connects to.

Now I will be the first to admit, it is easy to take soemone else's design and tear it apart, not what I am trying to do. Just seems, they could have added a little more capacity and provided better radiator protection and "air scooping" if they would have built the shrouds into the tank.

Overall happy with the tank. Started the bike up and checked for leaks, all is well and I am ready for Colorado!
 
firebolter- the problem with the fuel going low by the schrouds is related to where the fuel pickup is... it wouldn't draw any fuel that is lower than the base of the fuel pump. So without modding the pluming of the pump- nothing could be done by a tank maker. I believe Husky changed the Xlites (or some) with interesting plumbing to get around this- and it appears Safari did that with their tank too. Safarie is an option- but for me I don't want more than 3 gallons. The safari is way over the top for what I do.
 
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