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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Those friggin snap fit hose clamps...

Boogie

Boogie

Husqvarna
Pro Class
These clamps annoy me. I don't have the install tool and always struggle to get em on and off...

What do you guys do to remove and replace?
Is the correct tool the only answer?

I'll usually replace with a "normal" screw type hose clamp if I have one lying around, but sometimes have to reuse these friggin snap things.

Here's a pic of the little devil clamps and tool.


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I just "gently ruin" them with a pair of snips/wire cutters/pliers/screw driver to get them off. Replace with normal snail clamps (as above) or fuel line clamps for smaller applications.
 
Never knew you needed a tool for those OEM clamps ... I guess that is why once I removed them, they were tossed and replaced with a normal type ...
 
The general consensus is that nobody likes the snap fit clamps. I do as you - the tool is a pair of snips, remove that thing and replace it with a threaded clamp
 
Micfasto said:
End nippers or side cutters to remove and instatll the OEM clamps. They are reusable.
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Yeah, I like to replace them with a worm gear type but if there isn't one handy I have reused the OEM with one pair of pliers to compress and another to snap it together many times.
 
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