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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Dual-sporting a 2010 TE 450, with cheap tricks
- Thread starter OlderHuskyRider
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Is there a mileage goal before you get rid of it? By the way, this is one of the best thread I've read 
. Love those bikes
. Love those bikes
OlderHuskyRider
Husqvarna
Pro Class
The current plan, now that I have spent $350 to get it e-starting good again, is to take it to 20,000 miles, I hope to make 2 trips to New Mexico this year to do my favorite ride and finish out 2014 with a plan to move to another bike.
Here it is with less than 100 miles on it. all stock, with blinkers, paper tag, and lousy Karoos, December 2010
Here it is with 17,000 miles, 17 rear tires shredded, and a whole lotta stuff done to it, January 2014.
Here it is with less than 100 miles on it. all stock, with blinkers, paper tag, and lousy Karoos, December 2010
Here it is with 17,000 miles, 17 rear tires shredded, and a whole lotta stuff done to it, January 2014.
I'm really just curious to see what you get next. A bike that's gotten you this far will be hard to beat
OlderHuskyRider
Husqvarna
Pro Class
No ride pics from this weekend, we were movin' and groovin', 1.5 gals to go 37 miles (25 MPG), most all that was dirt. Starter was workin' fantastic, but I blew out some fork oil, left side, again, so since I had gotten the parts for a fork service from Bryon last month, I thought I'd try this job, never done it before, might screw it up...no special tools, gonna improvise, and use Cheap Tricks...here's the live blog KYB fork service!
10 minutes to get here, don't worry, I took the forks outside and gave 'em a good washing. All I really want to do is replace the bushings (I have play in the forks) and the fork seals, hope I don't find anything damaged inside.
10 minutes to get here, don't worry, I took the forks outside and gave 'em a good washing. All I really want to do is replace the bushings (I have play in the forks) and the fork seals, hope I don't find anything damaged inside.
OlderHuskyRider
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Looks like I need a special tool, I made a 14mm allen head, but I also, have some damage from an encounter with a rock some months ago, all the damn videos I watched on rebuilding KYB forks, none of them looked like the bottom of these forks!
OlderHuskyRider
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Well, screw this live blog, I give up, taking the forks to my local independent, if he can't do it, there's a suspension guy another 30 minutes down the road..
FiddyK
Husqvarna
AA Class
OlderHuskyRider
Husqvarna
Pro Class
OlderHuskyRider
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Well, I quit the live blog but I am sure that I could get this job done if I could only get the cartridge to hold still, I hate special tools, and it looks like I need this one:
Here's my prototype, I found a perfect size paper towel roller, 1.09" ID, now I just need to find something this size, and a little more durable. I've got my eye on a piece of my wife's vacuum cleaner, not sure how that would go over with her ....
Here's my prototype, I found a perfect size paper towel roller, 1.09" ID, now I just need to find something this size, and a little more durable. I've got my eye on a piece of my wife's vacuum cleaner, not sure how that would go over with her ....
duggoey
Husqvarna
Pro Class
My wife makes jewellery, she didn't like me converting some of her tools into motorcycle specialty tools, I.e. I made a spring puller, circlip remover, wire strippers etc. She wasn't as happy as me when I told her thanks and how good they work (ed).Well, I quit the live blog but I am sure that I could get this job done if I could only get the cartridge to hold still, I hate special tools, and it looks like I need this one:
Here's my prototype, I found a perfect size paper towel roller, 1.09" ID, now I just need to find something this size, and a little more durable. I've got my eye on a piece of my wife's vacuum cleaner, not sure how that would go over with her ....
EDIT + eyebrow plucking tweezers into dirty oily shim collectors, $300 hair dryer as heat gun. Etc. No wonder she keeps buying me new tools.
OlderHuskyRider
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I think I'm gonna do this tomorrow and get this job finished up while it's cold.
http://motoman393.thumpertalk.com/tech/cartridge.html
http://motoman393.thumpertalk.com/tech/cartridge.html
OlderHuskyRider
Husqvarna
Pro Class
PVC sucks. 1 1/4" metal plumbing pipe, perfect. I should have the bushings and seals replaced tomorrow and the forks back on the bike. I am so cheap, the simplest things just turn into a nightmare.
This is the American 310-450-510 number for 2010 TEs
OIL QUANTITY IN EACH FORK LEG
- TC-TXC: 352 cm3 (21.5 cu. in.)
- TE: 643 cm3 (39.2 cu. in.) 21 ounces
This is the American 310-450-510 number for 2010 TEs
OIL QUANTITY IN EACH FORK LEG
- TC-TXC: 352 cm3 (21.5 cu. in.)
- TE: 643 cm3 (39.2 cu. in.) 21 ounces
OlderHuskyRider
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Sweet jiminy cricket, I will never do another USD fork rebuild again! Hold me to it, I won't remember how crappy I am at this type of job, sheesh, I never do, I always can construct in my mind, a smooth, successful job, but it never happens like that in real life.
Got this one apart and all the new parts back on and reassembled. The bushings were very worn and in need of replacement.
I took a few minutes to fine tune the cartridge holding tool, cleaned it up a bit since I want to disassembled the next fork, so I can refill with oil just like this one.
One down, one to go.
Got this one apart and all the new parts back on and reassembled. The bushings were very worn and in need of replacement.
I took a few minutes to fine tune the cartridge holding tool, cleaned it up a bit since I want to disassembled the next fork, so I can refill with oil just like this one.
One down, one to go.
OlderHuskyRider
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I wouldn't recommend it, if you've never done it before, and if you don't have the special tools, and especially if you don't like oil dripped all over the place. Damn, I spent alot of time just cleaning up the mess. but forks are back on the bike and it feels good, I doubt that I could feel any difference, I just wanted the oil to stop leaking out, I've had 3 separate times with oil all over the axle clamps, and twice, with no front brake!
Lotta work to replace this stuff, the left side floating bushing was more worn than the right side. I guess doing the first fork service at 17,000 miles / 3 years is not a bad deal.
Bike runs great, handles great, I'll have to see if the 5wt oil in the forks is gonna suit me, I've been running 2.5w for a long time now.
OlderHuskyRider
Husqvarna
Pro Class
The TE 450 is a rockin' bike, even at its advanced age. Forks feel great, bike works well, did some urban dual sporting today, 70F, around the Austin area, got a little muddy, only 1 flat, tons of fun.
sean bromley
Husqvarna
C Class
Thanks ohr, really enjoyed reading all your thread, great pics too.
OlderHuskyRider
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Thanks ohr, really enjoyed reading all your thread, great pics too.
Thanks man, it's been fun, this TE 450, and keepin' it going on the cheap....
I had torn another hole in my ragged out seat cover, so I decided to put the brand new Seat Concepts cover back on, from 3 years ago, it was too sticky a surface, I needed to slide around more, I'll try to get used to it, it sure looks nice....anyway, when I took the old seat cover off, I found some twigs and a leaf in between the cover and the foam! I had 50 staples holding that cover on, so how in the hell did some vegetation get in there?!?!? Amazing!
Another thing, I felt like my turn signal switch was not acting real good for keeping my fan on, the switch is kinda ragged out, it kinda flops around from left turn to right turn signal, so I decided to put a dedicated switch on for the fan, I had a switch from another project on the bike, and I wanted to mount it to the front of the handlebar clamp. Some months ago, I had cut down an aluminum step ladder for my granddaughter to have a way to help Grandma cook, and I had this piece left over, so I drilled a bunch of holes, tapped some threads into the handlebar clamp, and then I made a 5 inch long wing-nut bolt to secure my headlight, now I can take my headlight off with no tool, and I wired the fan into the city light, so I can run it with the key on, but the engine off.
