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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

White goo between rectifier/frame??

M

MMMOTORCYCLE

Husqvarna
AA Class
Can anyone tell me what the white goo is between the rectifier (finned electrical thingy) next to relays. 2 bolts secure it to the frame.

Is it supposed to be there? Did it leak out from somewhere?

Thanks
Mike
 
heat transfer paste aka thermal grease. Used to fill any air gap between the two surfaces since air is a very poor conductor of heat.
 
montgob1 said:
heat transfer paste aka thermal grease. Used to fill any air gap between the two surfaces since air is a very poor conductor of heat.
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+1 on what montgob said. You should probably reapply new thermal paste when you reassemble to make sure you get good thermal contact, otherwise the rectifier may overheat. Radio Shack or computer builders have the good stuff; I like the Arctic Silver brand :D
 
OK, help me out here. My problem seems to be heat related, it can't be this simple that a little grease or lack of would cause all these problems I'm having ?!?!?!?!?!?
 
Please excuse my electronic ignorance....it is the voltage regulator :D

Just curious if anyone has had issues with M.A.Q.S. ? are the prone to failure, effected by heat, is there a way to test?

Thanks
Mike
 
Sounds like the Regulator/Rectifier. If it's shot, strange stuff can happen. That's my expierience on my old VFR anyway. Battery issues, irregular charging, lightbulbs acting funny, guages going nuts. +1 on the heat transfer goo.
There is usually a way to test. On the VFR there's specified resistance between each terminal. I'd imagine the husky's the same, just have to find out what range of ohms they are supposed to be.
 
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