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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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Thanks for those responses. I think for the money, I'm going with the Wolfman Expedition Dry bags. Another question and comment. The only thing that I am not liking is the handlebar height and position and I have adjusted them as best I can and still not satisfied. I am needing higher and closer to the rider. How much of a riser or the riser positioner combo can be used without needing longer cables?
 
Air Filter Replacement.

I am looking at replacing my Air Filter and, having decided that I do not need a Pod Mod (yet), I want to replace the original fit but I cannot seem to source anything other than the Aus Unifilter. OEM stuff is pretty much unavailable in Philippines.

I was looking at the HiFlo HFA7601 as listed for the BMW 650GS pre 2004 and wondered if it might possibly fit into the TR650 holder.
Anyone have any further info or has tried this filter to confirm if it is usable or not.
 
The X-challange, X-country air filter is the one that's the same. Don't use the uni-filter in the stock frame. It's too soft and pushes into the frame when installed and won't get a good seal.
 
Gibster said:
The X-challange, X-country air filter is the one that's the same. Don't use the uni-filter in the stock frame. It's too soft and pushes into the frame when installed and won't get a good seal.
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Thanks for that, so you confirm it is the HiFlo HFA7602 for the X Country/X Challenge/X Moto that fits the Husqvarna TR650 and not the HFA7601 that i was originally thinking of.
 
Don't know the HiFlo number. BMW number is 13 71 7 659 972. The uni filter I'm referring to is the aussie one. Don't know if US uni filter makes one.
 
I just recently got a terra and planning to change my rear sprocket to a 49T. On the first page it mentioned it would not but since there was no picture I am not certain and I noticed that my chain has some slack and it is at somewhere mid point of the adjustment on the rear wheel... Will my stock chain fit for the 49T rear sprocket?
 
A decent replacement Air Filter that fits well.

I have found that the HiFlo 7602 Air Filter as advised by Gibster, not only fits, but is possibly much better than the OEM Filter.
For those who for whatever reason, have not done the Pod Mod, including me, this Filter will possibly solve some of the potential issues with the original poorly fitting version.

The HiFlo 7602 rubber seal is about 1.5mm thicker and offers a much better fit in the stock frame providing a good seal on the inner part of the air intake.

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So if you are not planning a Pod Mod (which I still find unnecessary) then the HiFlo 7602 is the Filter to by in order to ensure the best possible fit in the mickey mouse holder.

I cannot say that the K&N BM-6507 offers the same fit, but I am going to run it and see if it works well enough.

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Cheers, MH
 
Thanks for the info! I'm not going to do the pod mod on mine because I don't do dirt with it and my inspection showed everything was very clean. But I took it apart so who can guess what it looks like now...:confused:
 
isldtime said:
Thanks for the info! I'm not going to do the pod mod on mine because I don't do dirt with it and my inspection showed everything was very clean. But I took it apart so who can guess what it looks like now...:confused:
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I am very much of the same opinion, I have opened my Air Filter unit several times and found everything on the inner section is as clean as a whistle, so no need for a Pod Mod (enough said :rolleyes:)
I do agree that the original filter arrangement is far from satisfactory, but with the HiFlo 7602 some of the poor fit issues are covered as it is quite a bit tighter when in the bike.
I also don't do dirt but the conditions here are often very dusty and my OEM filter was quite dirty after only 3000 km so now I have fitted the K&N BM-6507 washable unit to see how it performs. I check every 1000 km or so and if I have issues then I will fit a HiFlo 7602 before I consider a pod Mod.
 
Mark_H said:
A decent replacement Air Filter that fits well.

I have found that the HiFlo 7602 Air Filter as advised by Gibster, not only fits, but is possibly much better than the OEM Filter.
For those who for whatever reason, have not done the Pod Mod, including me, this Filter will possibly solve some of the potential issues with the original poorly fitting version.

The HiFlo 7602 rubber seal is about 1.5mm thicker and offers a much better fit in the stock frame providing a good seal on the inner part of the air intake.

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So if you are not planning a Pod Mod (which I still find unnecessary) then the HiFlo 7602 is the Filter to by in order to ensure the best possible fit in the mickey mouse holder.

I cannot say that the K&N BM-6507 offers the same fit, but I am going to run it and see if it works well enough.

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Cheers, MH
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THANKS.
 
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engineerk9 said:
It's not so much the air filter that is the problem, although the accessibility sucks, it's the design & manufacture of the 2 peice airbox that's the problem, with poor sealing between faces & the airfilter carrier only sealling on 3 side
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Agreed, however the slightly 'fatter' rubbers of the HiFlo Filter over the OEM version helps to obtain a much better seal on the carrier.
I am trying a K&N at the moment, so far so good too.
 
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