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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Safari tank install on 2009 TE 450 HELP

Thanks, that may be the solution! Just saw your answer since I am now (finally) getting the bike ready to ride after owning it for over one year (too many other bike related projects). Also had an issue with the lower front crossover aluminium bracket which I believe is part of the Safari tank kit? This is probably because the P.O. crashed the bike fairly hard (enough to bend the handlebar and the handlebar mounting bolts) and the fact that the tank has had gas containing ethanol in it for a few years (likely causing it to grow a bit).

Mounting the crossover bar to both front tank wings and also to the central bracket (attached to the frame), caused the rear of the tank to raise up from the frame (putting a lot of load on the threaded inserts in the front wings of the tank), but since this bike has an aftermarket frame around the radiators reinforcing them against bending, I decided that the best course of action was to not tie the crossover bracket to the central frame mounted piece.

That way the tank can move around a bit due to temperature and ethanol in the gas without putting too much load on the front wing threaded inserts (which ultimately could cause the tank to leak from those mounting points). In other words, the crossover bar protects the wings from being forced to the outside in a crash by being tied together and neither of them can move very far to the inside because of the radiator reinforcement bracket.
 
Slider, Just looked at your suggestion again and started wondering if you meant that the t-piece and the hoses are inside the tank connected to the fuel pump or on the outside? I have a TE 630 and bought a Safari Tank for it last year and it has an outside crossover hose. I would not be surprised if the P.O. did not connect the t-piece and the hoses inside the tank (if that is is what it is) judging from what else he has done to the bike, nice guy but no mechanic!
 
After looking at the (2) brand new spare fuel pumps that came with the bike (was there an issue with the fuel pumps), they mount directly on to a filter. In other words, there does not appaer to be any way of connecting a T piece and split into two hoses (one down each side of the tank)!

Slider said:
From memory they have a t-piece connecting a hose down each side of tank into pump.
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