Awesome job man.
There are some seriously excellent builds on CH. Are you going to ride that off road? That would be much harder than the first ride on a new bike IMHO.
check your PM's
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check your PM's
K
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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Hwy;63178 said:Thanks rabskyline.
You bet I'm not ever gonna sell this one again. I had seller's remorse for 15 years!
I searched 5 years for another '86 510TX but never found one in decent shape.
Here is the last seat photo. I added the finishing touch with the proper sized and position white side "gunsite" logos that was used on the seat for that year and model.
Hwy;65200 said:Day 33
More tidbits added to otherwise completed project.
One of the hardest parts to find for this resurrection, besides a new fuel cell, was a new Acerbis front fender extender. I never found a new one so I re-used the original OEM unit that was offered as an option to the '86 TX model. I was apprehensive about drilling holes in my new $65 front fender but I did it anyway.
This time however instead of the plastic rivets, (always came loose and never tightened well) I used 3/16" aluminum rivets with backing plates for a super tight bond. I will have to drill them out to be removed but I hadn't the need in past years. The added benefit was the clean factory look.
I also added the second front brake cable guide that I never knew existed. Evidently, on the TX and TC model front number plates there is a factory punch-out on the number plate that I never noticed till I re-did the graphics and pulled the all ones off. I did have to disconnect the front hydraulic cable to install and re-bleed the front brake again, no problem.
As you may recall in my previous post that I had bought/received the wrong clutch cable. My search party of one (me) found a brand new Motion Pro cable, long discontinued by Motion Pro. Installed and clutch is 100% now. I'm send the old cable off to Speigler's Performance parts for a proper built stainless cable. By the way, Motion Pro will also built custom cables but my experience is that Speigler's is top level quality and fast turn-around.
The last item for today are these neat little black plastic covers to hide the exposed axle clamp bolts. I found these at McMaster-Carr.
It's great to see my old Hooska came back from the brink of no return, restoration wise.
This old lady and me have shared numerous adventures from the Barstow to Vegas, dozens of District 37 Hare and Hounds, Baja and just plain old fun cow-trailing. I'm getting real itchy to take it out again. First ride will be Husky Monument in the Ca desert, as shown in the last photo. That's me on the far right in my KTM get-up.