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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Radiator T Fitting FAIL & Solution

Phoenix

Phoenix

Husqvarna
AA Class
If you've been thinking about replacing that stock plastic T fitting in your radiator hoses, but just haven't gotten around to it yet, then you might consider going ahead and doing it.

I've been trying to get a Y from Up-Tite for a while, but he's been having some problems with the company that does his casting. I hunted around for a while looking for a metal barbed T or Y fitting, but couldn't find anything that looked right. After a bit, I contacted Zip-Ty and they suggested that I use a 2010 radiator hose. Eureka! I didn't know it, but the 2010 models have a one-piece upper radiator hose to replace the 3 hose/t-fitting setup from the older models.

Here's the damage. You couldn't actually see the hole until the hose was removed. It was pretty obvious once I tried to refill the radiators and coolant started pouring out from under the tank. I would have thought that my husband would have checked the coolant after the overheat that started this whole mess.
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Here is a comparison of the 09 radiator hose setup and the 2010 TXC 450 unified hose. The new hose is not shaped exactly the same as the old one and the whole thing is taller from bottom to top. I had to push the ends that connect to the radiator up as high as I could. There is a lip on the water pump housing that prevents you from shoving it on farther than designed. I think that trimming the ends of the hose would help a bit.
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New unified hose installed. It fits pretty well (would be better with some trimming) and has a nice grommet that connects to the left hand radiator mount. I had to use a longer bolt due to the added thickness of the rubber (it isn't bolted up in this picture).
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I had been holding out for an Up-Tite Y, but got to the breaking point and had to do something. The 2010 unified radiator hose was about $25 from Halls.
 
i did installed the same hose on my Tc510 2008, i did trim it a little so there is not too much stress, so far so good.:thumbsup:
 
Wow that hose looks almost identicle to the 06 KTM 625SMC hose I have hanging in my workshop. That is a really good option to consider when it comes time to replace the original hoses, and may even be less expensive than the cast Y.
 
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