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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

"How to" TR650 coolant flush?

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Is there a "how to" article somewhere on flushing the coolant on a TR650? I searched the internet but couldn't find one. I'll be flushing my coolant soon and I'm assuming it's similar to BMW GS650 but don't want to miss anything specific to the TR650.

If not, I'll just go slowly and use common sense. ;)
 
I'm not sure if the thermostat is removable from the radiator making backflushing of the cooling circuit problematic.
 
AUS_TR650 said:
I'm not sure if the thermostat is removable from the radiator making backflushing of the cooling circuit problematic.
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It looks removable. Just pull a wire circlip (large) on the bottom, and pop out the plug and thermostat. Never seen it done, looks doable.
 
mag00 said:
It looks removable. Just pull a wire circlip (large) on the bottom, and pop out the plug and thermostat. Never seen it done, looks doable.
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In other threads related to overheating there have been instances where the whole radiator was replaced due to a failed thermostat. This leads me to believe that the thermostat may not be removable, I do know that the thermostat is INSIDE the radiator...not too thrilled with this design.
 
tr650bt said:
In other threads related to overheating there have been instances where the whole radiator was replaced due to a failed thermostat. This leads me to believe that the thermostat may not be removable, I do know that the thermostat is INSIDE the radiator...not too thrilled with this design.
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I know, and yet nobody has tried to remove one, that I know of. It's like, "if the dealer can't...". If I had a need, I would pull it.

In my little 4x4, I had a pitman seal leak. Nobody would change the seal. I pulled the seal, quite easy to do, and went to the local bearing house and bought the seal and replaced it, all for about 15 bucks vs $925 I was quoted. Same with the dealers, same with electronic repair. They R$R parts for money, not to save any money.

I have heard of waterless coolant. If I decide to change out, I'll give the thermostat a shot. No point in making the mess just for fun.
 
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