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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Crude but effective shock spring compressor

Kevin Sorce

Kevin Sorce

Husqvarna
AA Class
I saw something similar done by a guy changing springs on Harley shocks. I needed something NOW, so this is what I came up with.Crude, but very effective. 20 mins of fabrication. I only needed to compress the spring about 1 1/2 inchs to change the spring so this worked perfectly.

The base has a hole for the top shock mount and a cut out for the reservoir. the top plate has a hole big enough for the spring to go through, then 2 holes drilled through from the side to accommodate 1/4 inch steel rod which holds the spring. Obviously threaded rod on each side to screw down and compress the spring.
 

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