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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

What do you think is going on here?

A small animal got caught between the pipe and the head and had to be extracted prior to riding?
 
Well, I knew it looked like they were trying to drain some kind of liquid out of the engine!:cool:
 
the old fuel hydro lock, good way to bend a rod. aha good fun foto contest. thx
PS on another subject for Jake, Ryno never got back to me on your viddy assesment (oh well gave it a shot).
 
Bingo.

This has happened twice to me. This one time a few days ago with the ATK and last year with my old 86 WR400. Went to kick the ATK over which has otherwise been stone reliable and was hard to kick through. Knew exactly what it was ASAP. We turned the bike clear over and cranked about a half gallon out of the cylinder. Must have a strong ignition as we stuff the old polluted plug back in and she fired up and rode it all afternoon.

Thanks for playing.
 
Motosportz said:
Bingo.

This has happened twice to me. This one time a few days ago with the ATK and last year with my old 86 WR400. Went to kick the ATK over which has otherwise been stone reliable and was hard to kick through. Knew exactly what it was ASAP. We turned the bike clear over and cranked about a half gallon out of the cylinder.
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Bad float needle valve?
 
Dirtdame said:
Bad float needle valve?
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Or just stuck slightly open BUT the fuel petcock probably needs a need oring as it should have stopped this as the gas was turned off. Bike runs good and does not drip fuel so I think the needle / float is fine.
 
rancher1 said:
Is the cylinder and pipe full of fuel and you are trying to drain it so you can start it ???
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I was going to say the same thing when I first saw this post, but didn't think anyone else had done this also. I had to do that to my 84 KX250 back in the mid 80's a couple times when I left the fuel on.
 
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