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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Could something similar this...
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...be used to replace the oil tank drain coupler that dumps oil all over the bike? What size do you think those oil lines on our bikes are, about 1/4" or so?
I found a 1/8 NPT mini valve on Amazon for $8. I ordered it and it should be here later this week. If all goes well, I'll be installing it next weekend.
http://www.amazon.com/PneumaticPlus...ref=lh_ni_t?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A158LRHTFH4QLV
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Pretty good chance the thread in the tee-fitting will be metric. If it has a copper washer to seal the existing plug, it will be a fine pitch, parallel thread.I found a 1/8 NPT mini valve on Amazon for $8.
Pretty good chance the thread in the tee-fitting will be metric. If it has a copper washer to seal the existing plug, it will be a fine pitch, parallel thread.
Are you going to leave it in that position or are you planning on loosening the hose clamps and spinning it so it points downward (handle to the rear)?
Heck...even if yoy lost your church key, you could just use something like a 1/4" open ended wrench to turn the valve.
Dont forget the time it took, to take pics, while consoling crying baby.
Congrats on the little one! If it's your first kid, your going to love it.
My 19mo.old loves wrenching on my bike
Oh ya, nice write up. Thanks.
Now that you mention it, yes, I'm probably going to rotate it so the valve points down. Hopefully I have time tomorrow to get at it.