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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Kenneth Webb

Kenneth Webb

Livin' It Up!
'Finished installing my new Safari tank today. I have to say that putting one on the WR was much easier! There is barely room for the fuel line to fit over the frame, and it has to make a radical bend to be inserted into the pump body. That's a little worrying and I hope it doesn't stress the fitting or the pump body too much. Maybe a 90 degree fitting would work better, and I'll look at that when removing the tank for the valve adjustment. The pump pickup had to be bent quite a bit to fit into the tank but I just chucked it in the vice and bent the pickup bar. Then there is the lower brace. No way it would fit without quite a bit of grinding. Grind, fit, grind, fit, grind some more. The main wiring harness on my bike was on the front of the down tube, and now it has to run in front of the brace, just kind of hanging out there. To get it to the back I would have to remove the left header as there is not room to slip it by. But, that's a real hot spot and maybe I'll just leave it up front, with some electrical cable armor. OK, all my bitching is done. The tank looks good (white) and it is noticeably narrower than the Safari on my WR250R. It doesn't look like an aftermarket tank to my eye, although I sure would like the bottom section blacked out. Still thinking on that and doing some testing on auto wrap material.
 
A couple of pics of the new tank. I am going to make a stab at adding an inline quick disconnect for the fuel line to prevent wrestling with the fuel pump fitting so if I have to remove the tank in the bush it will be much easier. 630 Safari 001.JPG630 Safari 002.JPG
Next farkle, mounting my Garmin 276c; mount on the way from Touratech.
 
looks good, I wish their was a cool grafic we could buy to help cover some of that white, I agree that some black out of some kind on the bottom would look nice. It is allot narrower that I thought it would be

Sethro
 
Looks great! A few ebay husky stickers might break up the white a bit. Do you think the see through tank would look any good or look crap. I like the idea of seeing how much fuels in the tank, but some other dirtbikes ive had with them tanks tend to go a crappy orange like faded colour.
 
630mick said:
Looks great! A few ebay husky stickers might break up the white a bit. Do you think the see through tank would look any good or look crap. I like the idea of seeing how much fuels in the tank, but some other dirtbikes ive had with them tanks tend to go a crappy orange like faded colour.
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My transparent WR Safari tank looks pretty bad after a year, and while it is really good to know how much fuel is left, I thought I would try this one with solid white. You can see right down into the tank so getting a good idea of how much is remaining isn't too difficult.
 
Kenneth Webb said:
A couple of pics of the new tank. I am going to make a stab at adding an inline quick disconnect for the fuel line to prevent wrestling with the fuel pump fitting so if I have to remove the tank in the bush it will be much easier.
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Ken, I have one of these in the garage that I bought for my dirt bike. Do you think high pressure from the fuel pump will be a problem? It doesn't say anything about EFI or not use.

http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/p.../Tusk-Fuel-Line-Quick-Connect/FUEL+DISCONNECT

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Your 630 looks good. The white tank looks like the ticket for the 630's. Have you thought about the white fork guards from the SM? If you wanted some graphics, maybe Cafe Husky member Hwy could do some. A kit for a 610 might work. There are quite a few on ebay under "husqvarna graphics".
 
All of the fuel quick disconnects that I've looked at are ok with EFI, but i think I might go with metal, like Jiffy-Tite. The issue is finding room for it, and taking the 90 degree bend out of the line at the fuel pump. Also, you have to really watch where the fuel line crosses over the backbone. I think mine is slightly off and I'm removing the tank to try and get it right. I think the line is just a little short. When adding the disconnect I can fix that. While the tank is off I will get the wire run for the gps power. As for graphics, I think that I may try the perforated window type vinyl used for auto wrap. That particular material doesn't stretch much so it will have to be cut in panels around the lower tank contours. If I don't like it, peel it off. I would like to get it printed with some black and white graphics of some kind so the white areas of the lower tank don't show up badly. Experiment in progress. At any rate, the graphics are not very important, just something to fool with. I would like it to look snappy though...... After all this is done, the only thing remaining to spend money on is an Uptite exhaust and an attempt to find some used Wolfman saddle bags and another tank bag. It's hell having two fully set-up adventure bikes. Big Bend is coming up fast! Picking up the side stand lugs tomorrow, making final adjustments to the stop plate drawing, then sending that to the water jet cutter. Progress! Should have you (and everyone else in line) set up with the stand by BB for sure.
 
I didn't think the bend in the fuel line was radical at all....it loops back from the left and over to the right side and forward. The instructions show a picture but it wasn't what I'd call intuitive to know their routing intentions from that shot, but after a couple of pre-fits just to see where stuff went, it was clear enough. The bend didn't bother me, but it's hard to see how much clearance you have between the frame spine and the tank tunnel. Plenty, as it turns out, but it's not easy to see at first.
Overall I think the fittings provided are fine, and have no need for quick disconnects. I've had the tank off and it's pretty easy to deal with the fuel line.

After a few pretty fast and rugged offroad rides, it's been perfect - no issues with anything. Very pleased with it.

Speaking of Big Bend...

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blakebird said:
I didn't think the bend in the fuel line was radical at all....it loops back from the left and over to the right side and forward.
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Hmmmm. I routed my line the same way and the 90 just above the pump keeps the fitting torqued over a bit. Maybe it's not a problem but I would like to aleviate any strain on that plastic fitting. As to fit, the tank will not seat all the way on the rear pins and on the front mount without screwing down the front fitting to apply a vit of force. It definitely goes on, and there is not a lot of interference, but there is some. With a longer fuel line it can cross over just a bit farther to the rear and then there are no clearance problems. I think there may be a little bit of variation in the tanks. The lower brace though, not even close! I had to grind out about 1/4" at the frame cut-out and even then apply a bit of force to get the bolts to line up with the threaded inserts. I'm very happy with the tank and don't mind a bit of fitting. Did your pump go in OK or did you have the same issue that I ran into?
 
Kenneth Webb said:
As to fit, the tank will not seat all the way on the rear pins and on the front mount without screwing down the front fitting to apply a vit of force. It definitely goes on, and there is not a lot of interference, but there is some.
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I found out about the rear pins when fitting the IMS to my TE 610....

You need to set the tank down on the rear pins/dowels first, with the front of the tank raised...then set the front down. You'll never get the rear pins located setting it down fairly evenly or front-first. Drove me batty for a long time before I figured it out, I was ready to return the IMS tank.
When I got the Safari for the 630 - same thing exactly.

My brace took some tugging on the tank to get the holes to line up, but once fitted and ridden with, I can R&R the tank and the holes line up so well I can get the threads started standing above the bike, by feel.

The fuel pump didn't want to seat firmly and evenly - the extended suction arm/brace hit the side of the tank and took a TEENSY bit of bending - and I mean a VERY slight tweak to the side to get it to go into the tank far enough to seat the gasket flatly. It was less than 1/8" from seating, and it was merely the "suggestion" of a bend :D to get the arm to go in unrestricted.
 
Looks good. It's much narrower than I had thought it would be. I'll look close at the DV rally. :thumbsup:
 
For those wondering, with the Safari tank my low fuel light comes on with exactly 2 gallons remaining in the tank. I can use another 1.6 gallons before running out of gas with 0.4 gallon still remaining in the tank. I could probably use another 0.2 gallons of that by tilting bike far to the right draining all gas from left tank and cross tube into the right tank and then closing both petcocks before putting the bike upright. Of course this would be emergency situation only to get another 5-8 miles down the road.

Your results may vary slightly depending on how you bent your fuel pump pickup tube bracket to fit the Safari.

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