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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

AP-1 Fuse Block installation

drzcharlie

drzcharlie

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Installed my AP-1 fuse block and relay today and finished wiring my bike (still need to terminate the heated grips when they come). Anyway.....


Making room by moving the ECU

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Relay and wiring

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Tapped into the tail light wire (Green with white tracer)

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Soldered and re-taped the splice

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Installed the relay. Ready to terminate the other wires

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All circuit leads had the ends stripped and tinned with solder prior to installing them into the fuse block

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All the wires where they belong and this picture shows the fuse block attached with 3M industrial high temperature velcro

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While I was working I removed the rear rack and tail piece that covers the tail light access. I found this in there:

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It has all the same wiring colors and traces as the wiring loom for the tail lights and signals in the rear. Spare circuit? It has a termination plug on it. Just a cap.

When ever you access this compartment you will see that it is very spacious and could have been used to mount the fuse panel and relay however it would have necessitated running all of your circuits back there. There are three OEM plugs back there. They are loose and look like they could make a hell of a racket on a rough road. I drilled a small hole and put a loom harness fastener in there to gather them up and secure them from moving.

Just waiting on grips, Cycras and my BRMoto Luggage racks. The racks show they will be here tomorrow. Grips on Friday and Cycra hanguards maybe next Monday.

Tomorrow I am adding some iteration of Marks oil line fix and intend to drill holes in the swing arm and caulk the mudguard holes.
 
I was back there when my fender broke. Even though it is covered somewhat I found dirt in there at 1500 miles or so. I would stay away from mounting fuses back there. Where you have it on the battery seems better.
 
It still seems tempting to put something back there. If one used gorrilla tape to seal the vents I think it would be fine. My bikes all end up with loads of dirt everywhere as I like exploring forest service roads or riding back gravel roads whenever I'm riding. Besides, you are right about the fuse block being there. If you blow a fuse you need to remove the rack and cover plate prior to replacing it.
 
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