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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Metalic clang on starting

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A few weeks ago on starting the husky I heard a clang from the starter motor as if something metalic got jammed. I didn't sound good but the engine started normally on the next try. I didn't give it much more though until it happened again yesterday. Started second time again and ran normally. Now I'm wondering if there is something loose or getting caught that could cause damage.

I'm new to motorcycles so seeking some advice. Should I get it looked at ? I'm the second owner and its done around 5300 kms. Anyone else had similar experience ?
 
It doesn't sound like the starter motor itself. That is easy enough to remove and check. Remove the neg battery cable, then the pos and remove the battery.

The go pull the starter and hook it up to cables to see how it sounds all by itself.

Sometimes a weak battery and a poor starter might not crank it sufficient to get past the first pop, and that could have a weird sound. The compression relief may be sticking??

But most likely it will be under the right hand engine cover, but really depends on what the sound really is and where it originates.

But yes, you should have it looked into. If a part under that right cover, like a snap ring came loose, and it grenades, that will be an expensive fix compared to just a snap ring.
 
Did you hear this noise at the beginning of pressing the start or when you let go and the bike did not start? In the cold, I find this bike starts a bit rough. Below 40f is wont fire up without a little throttle help, or two or three attempts at times. When I attempt a cold start in low temps, and it doesn't start, I hear a pretty loud clank, too. I also hear a pretty loud clank every time I shut the motor off or stall it. It as disconcerting at first, but nothing's ever come of it and it's done it since I bought it and I'm 12k miles in.
 
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