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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

No front brake!

R

RB7

Husqvarna
AA Class
I stupidly stored my bike with a bungee cord wrapped around my front brake lever applying the front brake. The front brake no longer responds to moving the brake lever. Little resistance at all. I would normally just figure this out but I'm going riding tomorrow on a last second offer from an old buddy. I've got much to do tonight... I imagine the fluid bypassed the cups in the master or maybe the caliper O rings aren't aren't retracting the pistons. Just wonder if somebody knows off the top of their head what's wrong and what I need to do? Thanks in advance.
 
Id give it a back bleeding by slowly compressing the caliper with my knee while holding the wheel with both hands. Then try pumping it up.
 
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it in the a.m. It seems like the master cylinder has plunged one direction (toward the caliper) but never returned back to its original position due to fluid leaking past the cups. Too tired to deal with it tonight...
 
If you cant fix it just remove the lever and pads be rear brake only, dangerous as hell but you can still ride!
 
You can remove the brake piston in the master cylinder, pretty easy as it's only held by a circlip - give it a clean and reinstall.

Empty the fluid out from the M/C, fill with fresh fluid, attach a syringe to the caliper and suck until you get clean all.

Pump up the lever and you should have pressure.

If it's still mushy, fill the syringe with brake fluid, take some fluid out of the master cylinder and back bleed.
 
Old3, you were right. I thought about what you said and thought that you were sorta reversing what went wrong, so I took a c-clamp,( rather than my knee) and used it to push the pistons back into my caliper. This pumped fluid back up to the master, pushing the master cups back to where they're supposed to be at rest .Of course, I was careful not to overflow the master... Voila! Took about 5 minutes. Thanks for your advice.
 
Your very welcome! I do it pre ride or after my sight lap if I forget. Good thing to do when you unload. Keeps the air up and out, better braking is a good thing!
 
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