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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Homemade Tail Tidy

rocko said:
...it must have been Hi Impact Styrene. I told her I guessed it was about 1/8" thick and she told me they sell it in 4' x 8' sheets for $76 and that it only comes in white!

..:(
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Yup! That's it..."high impact polystyrene." Similar to ABS plastic...

Don't know if TAP will mail something...looks like all their CA stores are in NorCal...you could call one from their website number and ask about a small piece being mailed. The stuff is cheap...the trick is finding a small piece, I guess.
 
ContraHusky said:
Cool...looking forward to your thoughts.
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Got the signals in and wired, realy low profile, shouldn't snag anything. I didn't realize our signals were incandecent..... these are LED so i'll probably add a resistor to slow them down. Will post pictures later...
 
RDTCU said:
Got the signals in and wired, realy low profile, shouldn't snag anything. I didn't realize our signals were incandecent..... these are LED so i'll probably add a resistor to slow them down. Will post pictures later...
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ContraHusky said:
Yup! That's it..."high impact polystyrene." Similar to ABS plastic...

Don't know if TAP will mail something...looks like all their CA stores are in NorCal...you could call one from their website number and ask about a small piece being mailed. The stuff is cheap...the trick is finding a small piece, I guess.
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Awesome, thanks!

What thickness is yours?
 
oneleven said:
+1 That does look pretty slick. Nice find RDTCU! Though I sure as hell couldn't get away with where he put his plate.
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In my defense, my plate is plainly visible from behind at car-eye level... but i don't have a plate light.
 
I'm interested in the resistor needed to slow down the LED flashing rate. Would a resistor have to be placed in series with each rear LED turn signal? What value resistor?
 
Runner said:
I'm interested in the resistor needed to slow down the LED flashing rate. Would a resistor have to be placed in series with each rear LED turn signal? What value resistor?
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Yes, not sure of the value, but should be about equal to whatever the difference is in resistance between the LED light and the original. Use a multimeter, measure the original resistance then measure the LED resistance. The difference is roughly the required resistance for an identical blink rate. Blinker resistors are abundant on Ebay, or wire your own from Radio Shack.
There are a few options out there for adjustable-rate blinker relays, but I haven't found any to fit the Husky socket...
Another option is to disassemble the factory blinker relay and replace the resistor with a pot of higher resistance, that way you can adjust the blink rate yourself.
 
You can also change the flasher relay to an electronic one, it doesn't use bulb resistance to regulate blink rate, there is a small circuit board within.
 
kingmoochr said:
You can also change the flasher relay to an electronic one, it doesn't use bulb resistance to regulate blink rate, there is a small circuit board within.
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True, but the blinker relay on huskys isn't your typical 2-blade auto type...
 
RDTCU said:
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And how did you get that stupid "this passes Canadian spark blah blah blah" sticker off that is right above the husky sticker? If I try and peel it off it just breaks off tiny piece by tiny piece at a time. I saw another 630 that was in for service at the dealer and I could see the owner of that bike had also given up in frustration due to his half chipped off sticker :banghead:
 
rocko said:
Has anybody tried these on the front? It would be cool to have those front and back....
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I looked and thought about it, you would need a stalk light or some sort of spacer to get it out past the headlight fairing. Also, you would need more 2.2 ohm resistors, I still haven't done my rears to slow them down.
 
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