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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Silicone hoses.

Besides "China" dishes has there ever been anything made in China that wasn't a piece of junk? Seriously, has there?
 
Lots of motherboards (and MANY other components) in your computers are made in China. Taiwanese companies but, all the work done across the Strait.
 
anything made in china is straight out crap!!! i was using my ride on today when a spindle holding the blade broke. pulled it off to look for a part no and sure enough it was a aftermarket part with MADE IN CHINA.and no part no. the next time anything breaks or stops working have a look where it was made. i bet 90% of them will be CHINA. dont put chinese made hoses on your bike cause you will be stranded far from home with a cooked bike garanteed!!!
 
I hate to buck the trend here but I bought a set of green ones for my 2009 KX250F. The were awesome. Never had an issue with them. I even ended up buying their oversized aluminium radiators. Again the were faultless. I used the same supplier and have no dramas. just keep an eye on them I say.....
 
There are good manufacturers in China, the problem is that most of time you have no idea what manufacturer you're buying from so it's a crap shoot what kind of quality you're getting. If you have had good luck with a paticular brand that is "made in China" then you might be OK but often the people branding the stuff switch manufacterurs so you might not get the same quality all the time. On the other hand I'm not going to give IR $400 for a impact gun that rolled offf the same assembly line as a Harbor Freight one that sells for less than half the price and the only difference is the label.:confused:
 
rajobigguy;142138 said:
On the other hand I'm not going to give IR $400 for a impact gun that rolled offf the same assembly line as a Harbor Freight one that sells for less than half the price and the only difference is the label.:confused:
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I have often wondered if they are organized enough to grade some of their products and say a power tool with a Jet brand name could be of better quality than an apparently identical HF-Chicago. It doesn't seem likely though.
 
I've had both ASI and CV4 and couldn't tell any difference, other than that extra $100 in my pocket.

Aren't the new Husky motors made in Hong Kong now?
 
SAMCO does make their hoses in house in the UK. I can't find anything about CV4 making their hoses. Maybe CV4 gets their branded hoses from ASI? ASI Performance is a Chinese company, right?

Ok, I am confused...SAMCO Sport list/shows pic of a 5 piece kit for the 450/510. They list a 4 piece kit, no pic, for the 250/310. The cooling system requires either 4 hoses with a built in Y or 6 hoses with a in line Y? Also the Husky special parts catalog shows 5 hoses (minus the cap and crossover hose) in the kit. 5 hoses doesn't make sense to me.
 
MOTORHEAD;142547 said:
I've had both ASI and CV4 and couldn't tell any difference, other than that extra $100 in my pocket.

Aren't the new Husky motors made in Hong Kong now?
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Taiwan (KYMCO)
 
As for CV4 hoses, no matter where they source their products from. All their product line is top tier racing quality stuff that you will see top tier racing teams using in AMA MX/SX etc. For me that speaks volumes weather I will use a product, failure of hard parts is not an option. I've been using their hoses for 5 years now (3 sets), never an issue.
 
or instead of trying to figure where hoses are made.
Just order a kit from the Husqvarna OEM special parts catalog.(that everyone was complaining did not exist a couple years back)

http://www.husqvarnamotorcycles.com.au/content.asp?id=16

They may cost a little more?? That is the key, junk/copy/bad quality is cheap, good stuff costs more.

PS they also have source company markings on them (just can't read the logo, probably an Italian aftermarket supplier)
 
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