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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Help buying the correct SM wheels

restukey;71997 said:
Kirk at FactoryProRacing.com sells sumo wheels on Husky hubs. I did buy a set of 17 inchers from him awhile back, Excel rims on husky hubs, and they had the correct offset. No chain rub with a 160 Pirelli on a 5 inch rim. I did see he had a 16.5 front and 17 x 5 rear in blingy red. If you don't do rain riding, Bridgestone grooved slicks are might sticky. I don't think there is much offering for 16.5 DOT tires at the moment.
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You must have got lucky,I wouldn't take a wheel set from that place if they were free!Spacing front and rear was way off, you couldn't even turn the back tire because it was bound up on the chain.The front needed new spacers made all together.
Never again!
 
not-A-clue;71884 said:
Thanks for the info, I think I will try harder to find a set of Husky rims.

Will a set of wheels off a 2003 TE610 fit the 2009?

Thanks again for your assistance.

Cheer
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When I did my conversion on my 08 SM to TE wheels, Dan at MotoXotica told me anything from 04 up would fit which leads me to
believe the 03 would not fit. Husky changed axle sizes but I don't remember when. Call Dan and he will set you right. Alot of stuff is interchangable on the huskys, you just need to call and find out what fits.

I did a complete TE change over using wheels from an 04 TE510, new master cylinder for a TC450 and a caliper from an 07 TE250. All a complete bolt on with no problems, mostly sourced from ebay.
 
Using husky parts is key!My problems began when I let them sell me some after market hubs made by RAD Manufacturing.They look nice but they don't work so stick with OEM.
 
I have a set of SM wheels off of a SM450 that fit right up to my SM610, putting dirt tires on them soon. I would assume a set of 17" SM wheels off of a 450/510/610 Husky SM would fit a TE610. The only thing is the front rotor mounting bolts, Rajo did that to his bike. I am working towards the Woodschick style because I own the SM610 not the TE, so an extra set of rims complete with rotors and chainring is my quick swap out. I would just keep looking for the SM wheels for the Husky bikes or get the less expensive set from motostrano shipped.
 
Hello, bit off, but ontopic (newbie question):
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I bought some rims with hubs from Talon for my 510 SMR. These hubs appear to be wider than the stock front hub. When i tried to switch the front wheel i get a offset on the brakecaliper fastening screws and axle for aprox 5mm.

What is the normal solution to this problem?
If i get a smaller spacer would the front wheel still be aligned with rear wheel?

brgds
Mr3
 
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