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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

why did the gas leak?

alkrisma

alkrisma

Husqvarna
B Class
I just pulled the tank off in prep for valve check/adjustment and I released the quick disconnect on the brass fitting (see pic) instead of the red plastic elbow below the fuel pump. I expected some fuel from the line but it never stopped? Why? I figured the fuel pump would have no flow with no power.
 

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Maybe there's a valve release at the red plastic one that shuts off flow. Not having one in front of me that's just a guess.
 
I generally don't leave it sitting long enough to continue leaking so I couldn't tell you if it is supposed to or not. Remove the tank and immediately set it upright so that fuel does not leak out. I have never noticed excess amounts leaking, it could be that yours was just leaking from the fuel left in the hose/pump since you took the entire hose off with the tank.
 
nocontrol;99503 said:
I generally don't leave it sitting long enough to continue leaking so I couldn't tell you if it is supposed to or not. Remove the tank and immediately set it upright so that fuel does not leak out. I have never noticed excess amounts leaking, it could be that yours was just leaking from the fuel left in the hose/pump since you took the entire hose off with the tank.
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I had towels all around the engine, efi etc and then disconnected hose and it trickled out. As I tried to disconnect the wire harness under the tank the amount of fuel had unsaturated the towels. I ended up putting the hose back on and set up my gas can and some tubing and let it drip until it stopped (approx 1 1/2 gal) and then removed the tank and drained the remaining left side into the can also.
 
In the future I would remove the wiring harness first, then the hose, and then immediately remove the tank and set it in a position where it would not leak from the pump or fuel cap. This works fine for me.
 
I pull my tank off the same way. Only the gas in the hose comes out not the hole tank. There should be a check valve in the fuel pump to maintain fuel pressure. I pulled my tank about a half a dozen times and never had that happen.
 
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