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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
2008 TE450 Counter Balance
- Thread starter JTS1
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robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
it was the best thing I did on the 08 TXC450, hope you welded the drive gear onto the crankshft, that pressfit thing never seemed right to my for a system drive that has mass. and if it slips you destroy your engine.
ZipTy Racing was doing this mod to their 450/510 family race bikes, thats where the idea came for me to do it. bike is still going strong with its new owner.
ZipTy Racing was doing this mod to their 450/510 family race bikes, thats where the idea came for me to do it. bike is still going strong with its new owner.
robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
funny thing was that my bike actually felt more free revving with the c/b shaft assy installed just waaay more smooth. Dont know about you but the instant I started the bike it was a night and day difference even at idle. My quotes from those old posts about the mod---What a stupid move to eliminate that assy from the 450/510 engines.
That removed and replaced with the drive gear, oem "flywheel" disc pressed onto the crank seemed to have more mass than the entire c/b shft assy, my engine felt more free.
That removed and replaced with the drive gear, oem "flywheel" disc pressed onto the crank seemed to have more mass than the entire c/b shft assy, my engine felt more free.
Definitely nite and day moment i started it. Used to migrate across driveway on the kickstand before counter balance. Revs like most dirt bikes I've owned.
I took your and others advice and placed three spot welds with my tig to help keep it in place. Pressed on way to easy for such a critical component. Need to transfer pics to tablet but will try and post soon. This bike is what i was hoping for when i started looking for a good enduro/thumper since balance install...
I took your and others advice and placed three spot welds with my tig to help keep it in place. Pressed on way to easy for such a critical component. Need to transfer pics to tablet but will try and post soon. This bike is what i was hoping for when i started looking for a good enduro/thumper since balance install...
Shawbridgehusky
Husqvarna
AA Class
Good tip, where did you source the parts ? I am assuming you must split the cases for this mod ? I ask because my 510 is new to me. The 400/426 YZ all had a counterbalanced layout.
FatDaddyMX
Husqvarna
AA Class
Zip Ty did this on my TXC 510 baja race bike.
it was well worth it.
Vibes were way down and my hands were not going into rigor mortis.
Bike was way more smoother.
I highly recommend if you are going to spend any time in the saddle.
Fat Daddy
it was well worth it.
Vibes were way down and my hands were not going into rigor mortis.
Bike was way more smoother.
I highly recommend if you are going to spend any time in the saddle.
Fat Daddy
Halls Cycle had all the parts needed. Around $220 bucks i think for hard parts. Aready had a complete gasket set that came with the bike. Look at a parts manual and buy everything for the SMR counter balance assembly that was left out of the TE.
