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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

At 54,117 miles, you might want to...

Long overdue update, I kinda forgot about the thread cos I've been flogging my bikes :)

It turned out that the smart money was to replace everything in the transmission, which added up to a sizeable sum (which, as I said before, I'm not a bit shy about spending on THIS bike). But fortune smiled upon me (for once) and an '01 610 engine with 900 miles (yes nine hundred) presented itself for a stupidly low about of money in comparison. I picked up the new engine from Bill and had it installed and running in a matter of a few hours. But there was a problem, it wouldn't start once warmed up. It acted like the timing was massively advanced and would barely turn over. I had the valve cover off to confirm that the decompressor was working, it was, and I began chasing my tail in circles so I took the bike to Bill's. After some poking and prodding and pondering, it was found out that the '01 stator/reluctor combo wasn't a happy match for my ECU. So Dave (at Bill's) switched out the stator and reluctor (among testing and checking other things as well) and HUZZAH my baby was back. The new engine rocks! It makes great power and I'm going 160 miles on 3.2 gallons of Oregon "gasoline."
 
Thanks for posting, my 2008 is getting close to 4,000 miles, looks like the marriage is safe for a long long time, as I have no wishes to divorce for an affair with a KTM sporting Husky decals.
 
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