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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Melted headlight

Kyle Tarry said:
Does the "cloudy" surface go through the thickness of the plastic, or is it just the outer surface?

Try hand-sanding a small area and see how it works.
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It's all the way through :(

BobPS said:
That's really unfortunate riz, sorry to hear that.

Rather than getting a stock headlight, why not try something else, like getting that headlight and windscreen kit that looks like an owl? Can't remember the brand, it's Britain something?



My Duc doesn't care either. I commute on it every day, for a year and a half now, in one of the worst stop-and-go traffic in the world and never have problem with heat. I do worry about the engine get over heat, and I watch the temperature bar indicator when riding in heavy traffic jam, but fortunatelly it never over heats.

I lost the hydraulic clutch pressure once, like riz did, and I had to stop for 5 minutes to cool it down. But I changed the fluid to DOT 5.1 and never have the problem again.

Anyway, this past rainy season I've been riding my Husky more often than I ride the Duc, cause the traffic just got worse and worse, and at its worst after heavy rain. I figured that since the husky is a liquid cooled engine it can handle traffic jam better than my air cooled monster.
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Yea I'll most likely go for an aftermarket replacement...anyways, you're in Jakarta?!?!? Dude, let's meet up! :)
 
no news of the replacement radiator...no hope to save the headlight...I'm reeeaaallly tempted to chop this bike. no kidding
 
riz said:
So I was taking my son to school this morning...and this happened:
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We were in city traffic for about half an hour. Then stopped at my kids school with the engine (and lights) running. I laid my bag (nylon material) on the headlamp...prepped kiddo and kissed him goodbye (around 5-10 minutes) with the engine still running.

Then when I picked up my bag, it was welded on to the headlamp and it sorta peeled off of it.
I was also able to peel off the black layer of burnt bag fabric off the headlamp but the damage is done. Now it's deformed and there's a permanent white spot as you see in the pic.

Conclusion: Yes, I'm stupid! but I honestly never realized the headlamp was that hot or would get that hot in a short period of time, and for just a few minutes it melted both itself and my bag.

Question: Anyone know how much an OEM headlamp go for? I contacted the dealer and they said they'll look into it but they haven't contacted me back...and has anyone bought just the outer clear plastic part before? or do I have to buy a whole headlight set?

If the price is just way out of reach (I'm kinda in a slump at the moment), I'd prolly go for cheaper alternatives instead.

Thanks in advance fellas!
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Well after I was rear ended @ 35-40mph in a hit & run while sitting at a red light, I had to replace mine and if I remember correctly, it ran me about $310-$340USD after taxes, from my local dealer!
 
Anything other than stock has to be an improvement. Due to various technical issues with bikes ended up well after dark in the middle of nowhere in Morocco. KTM and Husky lights were useless so we all crowded up behind a guy on a BMW GS...not brilliant but way better than the rest. Get 20 yards behind and you were riding in the dark. Still good practice for off-road riding as you hit every hazard out there as you couldn't see it to avoid it.
 
Once I took my bike out and adjusted the headlight in the dark the beam pattern is much improved. The side mounting screws had to be all the way in the back of the slots and the top screw pretty tight to get the beam on the ground instead of the sky. The low beam has a nice wide spread now and is useable.

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Auxiliary LED's are the answer.
Obnoxiously bright, very little draw, almost no heat.

ADVMonster

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They also make a H4 LED replacement that should give you less heat, not sure if it would have saved your headlight / bag...

http://stores.advmonster.com/h4-led-headlight/
 
Nice. I picture those with a central Amber led and a strip down the side. Would make awesome driving/signal light. Oh, and same as dyno bob. I picked my TE te up used, and the headlight was pointed at the sky. Had to loosen the side bolts and push the headlight all the way back to get it right. Its got pretty good beam now. Not FJR bright, but good for a dualsport.
 
It's also a great fairing and takes most of the pressure off your torso at highway speeds. I know some folks have stronger core muscles to deal with the wind but for commuting and/or long distance travel it reduces a lot of fatigue. The nice headlights are just a bonus ;)
 
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