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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Leftside petcock seals?

S

Super165

Husqvarna
A Class
Hoping someone can help. I have a 1996 WXC 610, which I drained the gas and gave the carb a good cleaning a few weeks ago.

Everything was disassembled for about two (2) weeks. When I put everything back together, fuel was leaking out of everywhere. I supposed the orings/seals dried up and shrunk a bit. I have replaced the rights side petcock / main fuel valve o-ring, and the carb o-rings/seals.

Now, the left-side screw type fuel valve is leaking pretty bad. It simply unscrews to open up, and transfer fuel from the left side of the tank, over to the main fuel valve. In the closed position, it drips slowly. In the open position, it leaks enough that I do not feel it is safe to ride, leaking that much fuel right above the hot exhaust.

Does anyone know how the left-side fuel valve comes apart? I assume there is a small o-ring inside that needs replaced. There is a small E-clip at the base of the knob. I removed the E-clip, but nothing seems to want to come apart. The o-ring at the tank/fuel valve mounting point is not leaking - it seems to be from inside.

Any advise? Thanks.
 
Agree. Acerbis fuel taps are cheap and not worth attempting to repair due to safety risk if leak.
 
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