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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

heat shield rubber stoppers going missing - fix

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nev..

Terrarist
About 500km after new, I noticed I had lost one of the rubber stoppers on my exhaust which stop the heat shield from melting onto the pipe, because my heat shield was melting onto the pipe.

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This is the rubber stopper which should live on the bracket on the pipe and stop this from happening


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and this is where the stopper shears itself off. I found this bit sitting in my driveway this week, abut 5000km after the first one broke off.

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I employed the same solution I have for the other side which has now been in place for 6 months and no ill effects

An M4x30 bolt, this one has a philips head, and a few nuts.

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screw a couple of nuts on the bolt, then put it through the hole and a couple of other nuts on the other side, and a bit of loctite and bobs your uncle.

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Factory solution

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My solution

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