ok, this seems a bad design but the powervalves are at the front of the cylinder, with the frame barely an inch in front of that housing plate that covers them,. The housing is held on by four little bolts. I can unscrew one of them with a spanner but the others you need an allen key to turn, but, you cannot GET one in there because the frame is in the way! On the left hand side of the housing there are two holes one above the other, with rubber hoses attached. My powervalve was sticking open halfway so I took the hoses off and sprayed a lube spray in both holes, then did the same to the powevalve motor and cables and into the other end where the cables attach and physically turn the powervalve. Took bike today and it seems fine again, but I can't believe you're supposed to clean them by spraying stuff in the holes, I'd assume you'd take the housing off and clean them properly, get rid of all the goo! Do you really have to take the plug, hoses, cylinder off JUST to get at the housing to clean the valves???
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
125-200cc power valve clean wre 125
- Thread starter gazmcfaza
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gots_a_sol
Husqvarna
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You can take out all the engine mounting bolts and rotate the whole thing on the swing arm pivot enough to get the cover off. Still a pain.