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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I think i was in danger, what do you think?

Santi Beard

Santi Beard

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hello,
After a nice dirt ride with firends
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I was cleaning the bike when i discovered that the 4 bolts of the bottom front fork were missing
I have never checked those bolts before and don't know how much time i was riding without they
I think that in fact i was in danger
Check yours pls
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At least you didn't have to worry about sticktion.....strange that all 4 would have come out?!?!?!? Luckily it's the axle that essentially keeps your forks on, pinch bolts just aid in stabilizing the forks on the axle...whew...
 
I noticed that the first time I had the axle off and put back on that I lost one bolt myself in less than 50 miles. I admit I didn't look up the torque specs and used my highly calibrated hand to try and torque back to whatever it came with (from the dealer I presume) and found on the side with intact fasteners the first bolt had loosened up to only finger tight! Me thinks these things are prone to losing the first fastener if you don't get both torqued to the same values. So, now whenever I reinstall these I make sure I double-check torque on all of them--especially the first fastener I tighten.

But losing both on both sides seems a bit odd....

Since then I've noticed specs are for a seemingly light 5.9 ft/lb. ....hmm. No way mine was torqued that light when I first got it. Next time I have it apart I guess I'm getting my inch pounds wrench out to try ACTUAL specifications.
 
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