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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Muffler-to-headpipe disassembly

M

Marc Noel

Husqvarna
AA Class
To all my Husky brethren out there...

I swapped over to a smaller muffler on my '11 TE 449, which required a custom joint connection. The muffler has some leaks in it from the factory, so I want to remove it, then put on a new one, and I will seal up the old one later. Unfortunately, in my pursuit of trying to fix the leaks, I have used muffler cement, and it has worked in the one place where it was unnecessary. I can't get the seal to break. I tried using a propane torch today, but the thing won't budge. I am going to try MAPP gas instead, with its higher heat output. Does anyone know how to deactivate (?) muffler cement? Searching on-line only gives me results as to how to use the sealant, not remove it. I would prefer not to hammer on the thing, as I don't want to damage it. I already wrecked the first replacement muffler by driving a screwdriver in between the inner and outer sections, in order to separate them. While I did get it apart, I deformed the metal to the point where it leaked like a sieve afterward, so I just got a new muffler instead (which also leaked). Now I have a third muffler which LOOKS sealed, but I can't get the other one off to switch them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Marc
 
Mapp torch until the joint was glowing orange. Still wouldn't budge. I ended up hammering the stupid thing off, and wrecked the end cap in the process. Luckily, I had a new THIRD muffler to replace the destroyed unit. All of this was because I tried to seal some exhaust leaks. I have learned not to use anything stronger than Ultra Copper next time, so that I can still disassemble. If it leaks, TOO BAD.
 
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