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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Well, I blew it

MikeB said:
Somewhere around $900 .... my understanding is that the 12's stand to benefit more from a little port work than the red heads.
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I've got $400 in play money right now, as soon as I come up with another $500 this is a done deal. How did you crate up your motor for shipping?
 
I found a heavy duty tote/tub of the right size at home dept - put the motor in a copier paper box from work - put the cardboard box and motor in the tub with heavy foam around it.
 
I found a heavy duty tote/tub of the right size at home dept - put the motor in a copier paper box from work (x-lite motor is a perfect fit) - put the cardboard box and motor in the tub with heavy foam surrounding the copier box and the tote. Zip Ty returned it the same way with some bubble wrap to keep the motor exhaust down/trans up in the box (I sent it on its side in the box).
 
Remove the line and installed the banjo bolt with a stack of copper washers to keep the fluid in.
 
bmah said:
In your case that included the piston and re-lining the cylinder?
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I wish - piston and rod were over $500 + re-nicosil
I kinda knew what I was getting into when I bought the bike - figured I'd need a rebuild after a couple of years and it would cost $1000+.
With the added porting and oiling mod I figure I'll get even better performance and longer engine life now. (not to mention the re-routed vapor line which would have saved me to start with - speaking of which - ZTR, thanks for taking my idea seriously and doing it. It's a little difficult to operate but I'll adapt and it's a big improvement over stock. Next run maybe just use a banjo bolt and fitting into a threaded hole in a new fill cap?)
 
Hope he didn't do something that I would do like bolt everything up, fire up the engine, then after it seizes remembering I didn't put oil in it. Did that once with a snowblower after draining all the fluids in preparation for a move.
 
Mike-AK said:
Hope he didn't do something that I would do like bolt everything up, fire up the engine, then after it seizes remembering I didn't put oil in it. Did that once with a snowblower after draining all the fluids in preparation for a move.
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I drained the oil on my 03 CBR600RR and then started it without putting oil in it lol
 
Neighbor did that to a Ford pickup. Drained the oil, changed the filter, started it up and was going for a short drive and it stopped about 300 yards down the road. He walked back home and noticed the 5 qts of oil sitting on his workbench, unopened. DOH!
 
Sorry guys but I work - putting break in time on it - up to 60-70% throttle/revs - first oil change the oil looked almost like new. Nothing on the magnetic drain plug. Can tell you that the clutch mod has eliminated all Rekluse squealing. Getting into the meat of the power now and it seems to feel 'smoother' - she really wants to run so maybe by Sunday afternoon. The new drain back system is actually easier to use than the factory drain bolt crud.
 
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