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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Riding Rug Road near Mammoth, AZ

M

midengineracer

Husqvarna
AA Class
So, Sunday 3 friends and I went for a little ride.
Started ~6:30am.
I got a pinch flat that we fixed on the side of the road (using a branch to prop the bike up on its kickstand).
Then when we got to the second hill climb (I handled the first one like it wasn't even there), I dropped the bike at the very beginning. :doh:
Then, further up the same climb, I looped it on more loose rocks and this time it messed up the carb (needle won't seat now maybe, bike won't run below ~3200). :censored:
I had to call it quits and ride it back to the staging area while others finished what was supposed to be an awesome ride...

One of the guys filmed some of our exploits:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk4xzksmmaM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN8ZNLP_W1k

Link to the combined ride report on ADV (I think this is OK):
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13368732
 
I've never heard of a carb getting messed up because of a crash. :confused:

Did you try the hotstart button?


(Might want to consider folding those mirrors in)
 
I did try the hot start. I got good at kicking it over and could start it in one kick most of the time. Rode it for about 5 miles after the spill and the problem persisted. Turn off the fuel and it runs better, dies quickly after turning the fuel back on. Not a big deal, just have to check the float level and needle/seat surfaces. Could have gotten a tiny bit of dirt in there that is not flushing clear.

Oh, after the loop, the bike was pretty much upside down...
 
Coffee;107530 said:
(Might want to consider folding those mirrors in)
Click to expand...

No need to, they folded themselves in on the impact...

I intend to take them off and put the cheap plastic fold-ins on there instead.
 
It does indeed sound like a float level issue to me.

You should be able to diagnose that really easy. While the fuel is turned on lean the bike over until the overflow tube on the bottom of the carb bowl starts to leak fuel. If it does that before about 30-45 degrees of tipping the bike from vertical then that would be the issue.
 
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