• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

125-200cc Repacking an FMF TC2, some help pls

edmoto

edmoto

Husqvarna
AA Class
I can't seem figure out a way to slide the outer canister off the core on this silencer. Everything I've read or viewed on Boobtube shows folks tapping away at a mounting tab. But these pics show that the silencer I have is completely smooth. I tried tapping it off with a punch drift on the very edge but it became clear that would only mark up the canister. Any suggestions? Thanks,

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They can be very tight, especially if they're gummed up with a little spooge. Try using a piece of hard wood so you don't damage it. It will come off.
 
I've tried sticking my finger inside the exhaust side and hooking the insides and pulling while grabbing the exhaust pipe and yanking the other way... no go, except for the oiled up finger. The FMF website helps a little, but it points out that simply knocking on a mounting tab would do the trick. But no tab on this canister.

So you're saying take a bit of wood and tap it with a hammer against the very narrow 1/8 inch thickness of the canister, Zomby woof? Wow. Sounds sufficiently frustrating to encourage me to start drinking. I'll give it a go. Thanks for the input :thumbsup:
 
agree with a little heat... also try a good rubber mallet. i use one to tap that thin outer edge. you can smack it pretty good without causing damage. should start to break free.
 
Get a bigger hammer!
Its also a good idea to replace the endcap rivets with buttonhead screws as the rivets will loosen over time and cause damage
 
If cussing could be measured in degrees fahrenheit, it'd have been set ablaze by now. What a be-ot-ch! I put the original MX silencer on for now to ride today, so I'm gunna come back to this sucker after work on Monday. You know, when I'm ticked off at having to work for a living versus riding. Then I'll be in the right frame of mind to whack the CR-ap out of that thing, after torching it! "10 minutes to repack" says a FAQ I've read... yeah, and bikes have left side kickstarts! Oh wait, they do...
 
edmoto said:
So you're saying take a bit of wood and tap it with a hammer against the very narrow 1/8 inch thickness of the canister, Zomby woof? Wow. Sounds sufficiently frustrating to encourage me to start drinking. I'll give it a go. Thanks for the input :thumbsup:
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Exactly. Clamp one end in a vise or to the bench, and hit the other one with a piece of hard wood and a hammer, alternating side to side. Agreed, a little heat would probably make it a lot easier. I've fought with them before, It can be frustrating.
 
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