• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

FE/FC Silicone hose

Highbias

Highbias

Husqvarna
AA Class
Anyone have any radiator hosesHose touch2.jpg touching the valve cover? I just installed some CV4 hoses on my 501S to eliminate the thermostat and twisted and tightened this hose repeatedly to get it off the valve cover, to no avail. Do you guys think I'm going to have an issue with this, and wrap it, or just leave as is?
 
If it makes you feel a little better wrap that part and check it during oil changes. Don't have a fe but have hoses on my italian te250 and they rub a little but no issues at all yet anyway.
 
Can you trim the end up top so it pulls up off the head? I did this so mine would not rub the cooling fins. Also you may be able to just use a zip tie or two and pull it away from the head. I used a few with mine to keep well off the header and head.

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I had exactly the same thing with my radiator thermostat delete hose installation on my FE 501. I trimmed that top end of the hose a bit to make a smoother turn that wasn't so sharp and it's off the valve cover. It was a PIA though.

What I'd like to really know is how do you change the T shaped black rubber hose out that's in the frame for the replacement silicone one that is offered and still make the connection for that hose tube pointing vertically down.

They do make a Silicone T hose for between the pair of radiators, but the Silicone T hose is connected with a hose clamp to that tube that goes into the frame and hangs out the bottom opening that your hose is clamped onto up inside the frame that seems to me to be in-accessible.

There seems to be no way to get to it.
 
Thanks guys!! I'm going to trim a little off the top as Big Timmy suggested and hopefully won't have any type of rub issue.

Big Timmy, I'm pretty sure that pipe that the hose connects to, is screwed up inside the "T" in the frame. A few months ago, I remember seeing a you tube video of a guy changing it out on a KTM. You could probably find it doing a search for KTM Frame T-piece install.

Thanks again !!
 
Oh OK, I've seen the silicone hose with the tube attached and it had a hose clamp on it? I didn't know it was threaded or made up out of 2 pieces.

Edit:

Hey "Highbias" I watched the video you mentioned. Thanks, now I understand what you meant. The stock arrangement has got to go if that factory screw in tube stem fitting actually impedes the coolant flow like that.

Its pretty clear next time my bike is down for a service or valve clearance check that's getting done.
 
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