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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Front End Forks Swap YZ

Thanks. I do have two sets of spacers and these are the same , one came with the wheel the other with the forks. What ever axle used needs to be almost as long as the stock one, It could be that the 2003 and up have a longer axle to go with the larger fork tubes. I'll use what I have for now.
 
They stopped production on the yz426 in 02 if im not mistaken. Not sure if the 426 axle is the same as later model yz's. My axle sits about 3/8" inside the right fork but mounts up fine otherwise.
 
All reading this Post in this forum.

As a moderator I have done more housekeeping in this thread than I care to or normally do.

It has gone from all over the radar to several being disrespectful and sarcastic to other members.
Bottom line this whole thread is a stones throw from being shut down.

Have a new unrelated idea? ...start a new thread.

Disagree with someone?....ok...but no need to post that.

Someone did it different than you?....yep...there can be multiple ways to solve a problem. post what you did and why.

every one got it? Good

Joe
 
So got the bike back from pro motion suspension. Lowered, cut spring, and revalved to my weight/extra bike weight. He confirmed the wheel is definitely sitting offset from center. I did not notice any issues rode strait with no hands on the way down to the shop. I just had d606s put on front and back and the ride back from the shop was uneventful but the bike felt squirly. I hear the d606 needs to be scrubbed in before they settle down. Also the 130 rear seems to let me flick the bike around much easier. Was just wondering if anyone who has done that swap has noticed any issues caused by the front tire not being centered.

I am heading to eastern WA after work for a 5 day camp/ride i will report my results when i get back next week.
 
I noticed going to a 606 front from the original Sahara then Mitas EO7 noticeably impaired the road performance, ie. steering stability, paticularly at low speeds and spirited cornering.
That said, they're great on the dirt.
Contributing to this effect on the front end is worn/notched steering head bearings. At my peril I never checked/re-greased them and with the 606 up front it induces a wobble at high speed when cornering.
 
HuskyMike's Terra is done

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Aquatic said:
HuskyMike's Terra is done

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Stock triple? If so did you mill the lower triple out the extra 1mm? Also what are you charging for the axle/spacers and caliper adaptor(if they are for sale)? I think i want to go with the stock wheel, the weird offset to the left is bugging the **** outta me. I found the oversized brake rotor for the yz was enough, but left me wanting more some times on the road as i came up to a stop.
 
GrumpyShamurai said:
Stock triple? If so did you mill the lower triple out the extra 1mm? Also what are you charging for the axle/spacers and caliper adaptor(if they are for sale)? I think i want to go with the stock wheel, the weird offset to the left is bugging the **** outta me. I found the oversized brake rotor for the yz was enough, but left me wanting more some times on the road as i came up to a stop.
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I will do a write up this weekend sometime with all the info
 
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