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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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Like a chainsaw clutch. But a bunch of them in such a way as when one "gear" pushes harder the prior one drops out.
 
Not like recluse at all....more like A z50 centrifugal clutch, then it had drums and brass dogs engaging up shifts. My DAd has 86 430,3 speed auto. The strange feeling ride is actually fun to ride In the woods, it free wheels when you are off the throttle, it's weird fun till you go down some steep hills ....no compression braking and drum brakes...his has front disk, so no back brakes after a water crossing .....he has had the tranny apart a lot, he is familiar with it and preventative maintenance is required,frequent fluid changes..the brass wears and contaminates the oil they build heat quickly....he has spares but it isn't really ridden anymore...but it was fun to learn on!
 
panhandlebars said:
Not like recluse at all....more like A z50 centrifugal clutch, then it had drums and brass dogs engaging up shifts. My DAd has 86 430,3 speed auto. The strange feeling ride is actually fun to ride In the woods, it free wheels when you are off the throttle, it's weird fun till you go down some steep hills ....no compression braking and drum brakes...his has front disk, so no back brakes after a water crossing .....he has had the tranny apart a lot, he is familiar with it and preventative maintenance is required,frequent fluid changes..the brass wears and contaminates the oil they build heat quickly....he has spares but it isn't really ridden anymore...but it was fun to learn on!
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Pretty fair post here though I will disagree about the part I highlited. There are in the case of an 86 brass or bronze centrifugal clutches that engage second and third gear by spinning out and pressing against a drum. When they put enough force on that drum the lower gear freewheels or coasts. The only dogs are to put it in drive at a stop. whether three or four speed they do not coast in the highest gear. I couldn't even coast down a hill by moving the lever to neutral from a relatively high rate of speed.
 
Sounds about right ...dad can take it apart blindfold ...it broke often.. His coasted It would free wheel when you let off the gas, and it was a really strange feeling and scary down hill ..he experimented with altering the drive, springs,different fluids etc...I liked it because you learned throttle/brake control and how to keep momentum ...
 
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