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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

MOSS in OZ

WayneC said:
Glitch, the dash is part of the security, the key talks to the dash, the dash gives the OK signal to the BMS to tell it it is OK to start. The dash has traditionally been the security item for the BMW cars as well, the later vehicles now implement other security ECU's and they have had to encrypt the signals between keys and vehicles .......
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BMW and cars are the key words here. Identical methods and details do not apply to the entire automotive industry incl. all brands of motorcycles. I've certainly seen Hondas/Vespas/Kwaks etc with coded keys and security system starting up and running fine without a dash on the bike.


Chuffa said:
Just an update on Hendo's plight. He's hoping to repair his current instrument cluster. He has a relative with a 3D printer, & hopefully the skills, to replicate the cluster casing. The aim is to get the bike going again & then decide if it can be made safe enough to use in the middle of nowhere, which is where Hendo needs it.

One potential mod he thought about was a steel mounting for the instrument cluster. This interests me too as it seems the cable connection point is vulnerable and a loose connection causes the ews error.
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Certainly hope he can get this thing going again, what a bummer!
If possible, keep us updated on the mods please, which might be well worth copying.
 
My 'M' botton is out of alignment / broken too. Anyone have the shop manual to show me how the instrument cluster attaches to the front house? I got the wiring harness disconnected but can't tell if I need wrench, screwdriver or what to get the instrument cluster off the "posts"... Looks like it's mounted on 3 separate posts? any help is appreciated.
 
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