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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

O-ring material

M

Marc Noel

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hello again.

I recently got all new o-rings for all the caps and plugs for my next oil change on my 2011 TE 449. They are NBR material. However, I was reading about how the ZipTy oil filter cover (which I have) has a Viton o-ring, and now I'm wondering if I should use all Viton instead. The main issue might be the temperature rating. Any input?
 
Because I don't want to be riding along, only to find that the NBR either smolder or melt, then I end up with multiple, simultaneous oil leaks.
 
Look up the specs for NBR and Viton, think about where they are and how hot they get and make your decision. If you are worried buy some Viton O-rings from McMaster Carr (or your vendor of choice).
 
I have looked them up already, but I don't know hot those areas get, and I haven't been able to determine the OEM material. Regardless, I decided to order some Viton, just to be on the safe side. Lucky me -- they're 30 - 60 times as expensive as the NBR I got.
 
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