MinnesotaEric
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I got a plastic welding kit and repaired a fuel jug (akin to a giant milk carton) successfully which prepared me for my most important plastic repair to date! follow me.
I got lucky when I raced moto and mostly didn't crash so I missed out. When I took up road-style racing with 31 broken bones from when I was younger, I was old enough to have a rule of not crashing and became the guy to show others how fast their junk could run safely.You learn that trade real quick when you race motocross bikes and always have broken plastic, LOL
I didn't use anything as advanced as an actual plastic welding kit. I always just used an electric soldering gun and if it was really bad, some pieces of scrap plastic as filler.
But I guess you'd want to use something better if you were doing tanks like that.
I only had to fix rad shrouds and fender cracks.
Saves you a lot of money.
I always liked Supermoto bikes. That Husky is cool. I never did pavement. Just motocross when I was young on Yamaha then Honda 80's and 125's, then switched to AMA District 14 enduro and hare scrambles on CR250's and a CRE500 then quit in 2003 on a KTM 300EXC. Now I just bought a Beta 430 RR race edition. My daughter calls it my mid life crisis bike, LOL Also found out I'm not the same rider I was in 2003, LOL
But it is a good way to get some exercise again.
It is likely a Rekluse clutch Eric. Lots of people are running them now. You are right, everything is going fuel injected now. It's starting to even get hard to find a carb'd two stroke now.A buddy who continues to run enduros and hair scrambles in the Paul Bunyan popped over one day on one of his KTM's. Apparently, it has a clutch in it something like the first Honda Big Red ATVs. You can select gears, but you cannot stall the machine. You can even clutch up wheelies. I marveled. If only I had that clutch when I ran in the woods.
Husky-wise, I still have that bike with plans to hang it upside down from a vaulted ceiling someday. It is the last of the flat slides. Everything else is fuel injected. It also is a bit of a unicorn since Husky was Italian-owned back then so I believe getting parts for it would be super hard. Anyway, for now it is in barn-bike-mode.
The plastic valve housing on my pool pump is cracked, and a replacement is $650. I was just wondering the other day if i could somehow weld it instead of replacing the damned thing.
Repairing things wise, that is the biggest hassle I have (apart from not having a shop, or heated garage): ECUs behind paywalls.It is likely a Rekluse clutch Eric. Lots of people are running them now. You are right, everything is going fuel injected now. It's starting to even get hard to find a carb'd two stroke now.
I have mixed feelings about it. They run great and you don't have to play with jetting, but now you have electronics, check engine lights and need a dealer scanner to do anything.
My Beta has an adapter cable to plug in with a standard OBD-II scanner, but it only allows you to read the codes, you can't cancel or reset anything with it.