• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

250-500cc Water in oil

Kyle Tarry said:
Dirtdame, can you send links to some of these articles? I'd like to see if this is something I should be concerned about. Right now I am not too worried, as the cooling system components on cars and bikes are pretty similar, but it would be good to know if I was missing something...
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I don't see any really good sources presently in an internet search this morning, but I do some firsthand experience with the old style inexpensive automotive coolant....in a truck. I was running this stuff in my truck for years. After about 13 years, my alternator quit working and I had it replaced. The technician who did the replacement, put a cooling hose back in place with the protective split sleeve in the wrong position. About a year later. I noticed that the car began to run hot one day, so I checked the coolant. It was quite low, so I filled the radiator and tank up, but noticed that there seemed to be dried coolant all over the alternator.. I discovered that the hose was touching the alternator in one spot, where the protective sleeve was split. The alternator had made a hole in the hose, causing coolant to spurt out right into the alternator. I pulled the brushes from the alternator, and they were completely worn out. I bought new brushes and put them in. The alternator worked properly for another three years, but then began to make some noise. This time, the bearings were shot. I have never seen bearings go bad in any alternator in any car that I have owned, and I put a lot of mileage on my vehicles. Brushes should not wear out in a year's time. I'm pretty sure that the silicates in the coolant caused the brushes and bearings to go south prematurely in the alternator. I don't run that "old style" coolant in my truck or any of my other vehicles anymore.
 
Also check the sleeve that the seal rides on. Mine had a groove. I had no luck with aftermarket seal. The stock is double lipped and looks like it is in backwards, but it's not. Believe me.
 
Dirt Dame, spraying coolant into your alternator may well have caused the brushes and bearings to wear out, but I'd hardly jump to the conclusion that it was specifically the silicates in that type of coolant that did the damage. Any type of coolant would probably make an alternator really unhappy.
 
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