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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Radiator replacement

Glengemen

Glengemen

Husqvarna
AA Class
Took the radiator out today. Not the unbolting type method ether.

Does this share a radiator with the G650GS? Googled, but nothing concrete.

The part number is 8000H5220 and the cost is 358.75 from KTM-parts.
Maybe someone has one? I'm in the market. I'll take it by a radiator shop tomorrow and see what they can do about it. image.jpg image.jpg
 
Just out of curiosity, does it have a thermostat inside? We were discussing its whereabouts in another thread awhile back.
 
The way things are for spares,its soon that someone will cannibalize a perfectly good tr650 and make a profit whilst undercutting the OEM suppliers by magnitudes. Indeed there would surely be some who would stock up on vulnerable parts.
 
Glengemen said:
Yes, the thermostat is inside the radiator.
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Just wondering if it's positioned in the tank between the inlet & outlet pipes? Is it open when cold & closes when the coolant heats up allowing circulation across the core (twin pass design)?
If so, take this into account when designing your aluminium unit.
 
Looks identical to the F650GS except for fan position.

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I'd have yours repaired if possible. You can run my coolant which is waterless, it won't corrode like normal coolant and only operates at 1-2psi. Should get longer life out of your cooling system. :excuseme:
 
Tinken, I couldn't read the fine print on the XF+ coolant but I assume that it is also an anti-freeze. Yes? Suitable for serious long term dual sport use, not just racing?
 
The bottles are half gallon. Did you need that much? Most bikes like the 449/630s only take a quart, so a half gallon is plenty. Course if you have multiple bikes, that may work out for you?
 
Yes, for two or three bikes if it goes around. If not, I'll order more. The TR650 is the one that seems to run hotter; the fan comes on when climbing or doing tight trails. The WRR and TE630 less so but on occasion..... I will be doing a 5000 mile plus trip this summer on the WRR and that will be a good test for me.
 
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