• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

TE449 fuel cock filter

M

Marc Noel

Husqvarna
AA Class
Greetings:

I am wondering if anyone happens to know if the two fuel cocks on an '11 TE449 have integral filters. I can't tell, looking at the illustrations in the parts catalog.

The maintenance schedule says nothing about a fuel filter replacement, but I am thinking of installing either an in-line between the tanks (can't tell if there's enough room), or a filter sock in the filler neck (can only find one from Australia, and Tinken advised against it). However, if the cocks have filters, I would just replace them.
 
Okay. Thanks.

I just installed a Golan Super Mini filter between the tanks. I investigated the Zip-Ty one, but it had a quick-connect fitting on one end, so I would have had to use a barbed adapter, which would result in the whole unit being too long to fit. Plus, my hoses are 5/16" I.D., whereas the Zip-Ty barbed end is 1/4", so I may have needed yet another adapter, making the whole thing 12 feet long.

I also ordered a Pro-Fill filler neck sock, which is in transit. Three bucks shipping worldwide!
 
Ah, thank you! That was what I meant by fuel cocks, as per the parts PDF.

A Zip-Ty fuel filter has a quick-connect fitting at one end, instead of a barb (most likely, for KTMs), and I would have needed an adapter, which made the whole thing too long to fit in the available space on my bike, so I didn't get it. I am now using a Golan Super Mini between the two tanks.

Separately, I got a Pro-Fill tank sock from your neck of the woods. $ 3.00 shipping, world-wide!

Tinken had posted earlier that they tried the sock, and decided against it, going with an in-line instead, then he posted that they had trouble with a Golan filter element deteriorating, but that might have been due to some fuel additives, and they recommend against them.

The nice thing about the two tanks is that I can see if the Golan is clogged because the second tank wouldn't fill up after getting gas. I don't have as much potential to suddenly run out of gas while riding.

Now I have so much filtration, it'll be a miracle if I get any gas at all!
 
I forgot to mention that the Zip-Ty filter is $ 70.00, and the adapter is $ 56.00. I found a Tusk brand adapter for $ 10.00, but overall length was the deciding factor against, with price being the next.
 
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