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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
My 2011 SMR 630 review and (cheap) mods for heavy city traffic
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Husqvarna
notoriouz
Husqvarna
A Class
I'm totally cheaping out and getting the eBay hand guards after seeing yours. Totally worth it, they look great and by the sounds of it they hold up decently well too. But who cares since they are only $20, lol, if you go down and they brake I'm sure $20 wont be hard to come up with to replace them.
Your bike looks great, I have a question about the axle sliders if you don't mind. What size threaded rod did you use? I'm going to do the same mod to mine and save a bunch of money, all I need is the threaded rod and some hardware.
Your bike looks great, I have a question about the axle sliders if you don't mind. What size threaded rod did you use? I'm going to do the same mod to mine and save a bunch of money, all I need is the threaded rod and some hardware.
For the people that are using hand guards, if you are not sure of there durability for any reason, you may want to adjust the levers so in the event of a crash the bent hand guards do not interfere with the levers. Or possibly carry whatever tool would be needed to rotate the levers with you.
My son had Acerbis hand guards, had a minor crash, and the result was the front brake was held 'on' cause the bent hand guard was holding it on... and we had no tools with us at all. Not fun trying to get that bike back to the truck.
My son had Acerbis hand guards, had a minor crash, and the result was the front brake was held 'on' cause the bent hand guard was holding it on... and we had no tools with us at all. Not fun trying to get that bike back to the truck.
RDTCU
Husqvarna
Pro Class
On that note, I've got the cheap MSR handguards, like $60 for the set. I added some Zeta shields later.
As for the strength of the MSR bars, I needed to tweak them just a bit to line up without binding the clamp bolts, to get them right where I wanted them, and in a vice, it took some pretty serious effort to deform them just a tiny bit...
The bike has been down on the left handguard twice, and other than some scrubbing that I smoothed out with the dremel and painted over, you'd never know it.
As for the strength of the MSR bars, I needed to tweak them just a bit to line up without binding the clamp bolts, to get them right where I wanted them, and in a vice, it took some pretty serious effort to deform them just a tiny bit...
The bike has been down on the left handguard twice, and other than some scrubbing that I smoothed out with the dremel and painted over, you'd never know it.
EricV
Husqvarna
AA Class
Great advice....I hadn't thought of that. My old KTM had the Acerbis on and I gotta say they took a royal beating w/out any significant issues. There was some bending, but in all fairness I think any would've. At least on the old set I had the metal parts were very robust/thick.
riz
Husqvarna
AA Class
what do you mean by two plates?
thanks, man!
the rod for the sliders had 14mm threads. i can't remember the length though, sorry.
thanks for the tip! the clutch handle seems to clear the guard ok. only had to slide it inwards a little bit. the brake lever however, i had to rotate it downwards. so it's positioned under the handguard. i might cut the ball off later on like RD did
riz
Husqvarna
AA Class
ah that...yea two plates and mandatory lids
riz
Husqvarna
AA Class
Have you got the link to that?
riz
Husqvarna
AA Class
a little update on the bike...ODO is almost at 1000km now and I think it's loosened up nicely. A LOT more fun than when it was under 500kms.
I'm pretty happy, even though there's still the occasional stalling here and there. Most likely cause I had shit fuel on my trip to the jungle last weekend cause it didn't stall this often last week. Will flush the tank when I get the time, maybe raise the idle a little bit, and an iridium CR8EIX plug (a pain in the ass to find).
I'm pretty happy, even though there's still the occasional stalling here and there. Most likely cause I had shit fuel on my trip to the jungle last weekend cause it didn't stall this often last week. Will flush the tank when I get the time, maybe raise the idle a little bit, and an iridium CR8EIX plug (a pain in the ass to find).
EricV
Husqvarna
AA Class
I walked into my local Auto Zone, gave them the part nuber, they had 8 on the shelf, paid ~$10 and walked out.
(Still waiting on my frickin' replacement gears from the UK though. Who knows how long I would be waiting on the from Husky, indefinite backorder...)
Please forgive my being lazy here...usually good about doing searches.
Is CR8EIX most certainly the number for the iridium plug for the 630? Can't believe I haven't done this yet and if they're readily available I'll pick one up this weekend. Thanks!
riz
Husqvarna
AA Class
daaaamn yooouuuuu!I walked into my local Auto Zone, gave them the part nuber, they had 8 on the shelf, paid ~$10 and walked out.
I haven't tried it out myself, since they're purple unicorns out here. but yea I've read a couple of posts confirming it
RDTCU
Husqvarna
Pro Class
KXcam22
Husqvarna
AA Class
riz
Husqvarna
AA Class
A little update...finally took a spill. And this happened after I swapped the cheap guards to a Zeta...dammit!
My knee was sore for about a week but nothing major...
Aaaaaand...guess what found it's way under my seat? Yup, a JD tuner
Turns out this bike shop 10 mins away from work is used to ordering them. Got mine for around 280 bucks...not too bad
Also, I swapped the stock battery for a Champion motorsports Lithium battery. $50 and she's almost 4kgs lighter
About that JD tuner, I had to tweak the preset cause my ecu (CO) values isn't set to 0/0/0 yet. So basically had to reduce green,yellow,red to 3,3.5,and 4. Set the throttle snap and transitions down to 4 also cause it was jittery in the low-mid transition. Now, she's a whole new monster...gotta admit I was a bit scared of how she responds
Looking forward to tweak it a bit more tomorrow
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My knee was sore for about a week but nothing major...
Aaaaaand...guess what found it's way under my seat? Yup, a JD tuner
Turns out this bike shop 10 mins away from work is used to ordering them. Got mine for around 280 bucks...not too bad
Also, I swapped the stock battery for a Champion motorsports Lithium battery. $50 and she's almost 4kgs lighter
About that JD tuner, I had to tweak the preset cause my ecu (CO) values isn't set to 0/0/0 yet. So basically had to reduce green,yellow,red to 3,3.5,and 4. Set the throttle snap and transitions down to 4 also cause it was jittery in the low-mid transition. Now, she's a whole new monster...gotta admit I was a bit scared of how she responds
Looking forward to tweak it a bit more tomorrow
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