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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Fun with powder

Sh...t ****************************************! I thought I would be the first one to do that :thumbsup: Pics of the bike with the shield mounted pls :cheers: And then an idea how to partially cover the other side (hate those naked electrics :banghead: - looks crap).
 
I was thinking of taking a piece of silicon tubing and covering the wired part of the O2 with it. I have a bunch of shiny red tubing left over from a vacuum line kit I bought a long time ago. I am sure the vac line tubing wont last long (not really rated for high heat or UV exposure) but it will give me an idea of how it will look. If it looks good, I will get a piece rated for high heat (think turbo oil return line) and put it on. As for the O2 body...I think it gets waaaaaaay too hot to really do anything with it. I guess I could have welded a small piece onto the heat shield to hide it but I just wanted to get mine coated and didn't feel like bothering our welders today.
 
Oh...and I wanted to coat it in red paint but we are out of red right now. Once my new black body panels get here (Tuesday) I think a red heat shied would look a lot nicer than black. Might just have to toss the part in the media blaster in a couple weeks and coat it in red to see :thinking:
 
Now the two side engine covers on the other hand....I REALLY want to paint them matt-ish black to match the rest of motor!
 
I like the black much better than the stock look. I myself put on a Targa universal heat shield, my problem was occasionally burning my leg on the stock heat shield, this Targa shield does not stick out far enough for me to burn my leg anymore. The holes at the ends of it almost line up with the mounting tabs, I just used the hose clamps that came with the shield. I think black would look better than the red.:excuseme:IMGP2585.JPG
 
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