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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Initial Brake Fluid Change

Kenneth Webb

Kenneth Webb

Livin' It Up!
My brake fluid went from clean to dirty in no time flat. I mean there were very few miles and very few hours on the bike and it was pretty dark. I've noticed the same thing on other bikes shown in photos here. A couple of weeks ago I flushed both front and back and am back to clean again. I'm wondering if the system from the factory was just dirty or what? 'Never had fluid change color that fast on any other of my bikes. I'm keeping close tabs on it now to see how it goes.
 
I flush my brake fluid every 6 months and the first time I flushed it on my new bikes it was quite dark but after that it was fairly clean. My thinking is that the seals in a new brake system " wear in" and the particles discolor the fluid. My husaberg's fluid was much darker than my husky's but they are both clean now:cheers:
 
If your rear fluid resevoir/container is near the exhaust, heat can exacerbate degredation.
 
I've noticed the same thing, all bikes. Seems like rears though, not front. Already changed out the tiger's too.

Ate (euro brand) Dot 4 at autohausaz.com for about $12 for a quart. Your cars are supposed to be done every two years. If it has abs that unit needs to by cycled to flush it. A proper tech does that with a computer.
 
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