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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE449 valve cover drilling for Zip-Ty breather

M

Marc Noel

Husqvarna
AA Class
Greetings:

I am getting ready to drill my valve cover for breather installation. I have read about some alignment problems, and am wondering if they are only because a hand drill was used. I have a drill press, so I am hoping everything will go well. I will be test-fitting the mounting bolt without the breather, to see if it's centered in the existing hole, and will be using a longer bolt to test-fit breather placement, then either scribe around it, or mark it with paint. That way, I can use the outline for reference as I drill with the supplied step-drill bit. If it offsets, then I will stop short, and finish the hole with a rotary tool. In the event it is still offset, then I will enlarge the bolt hole through the breather, and use a longer bolt with a metal washer on top of a rubber washer, for sealing.
 
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