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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Need brake help . . .

cment

cment

Husqvarna
AA Class
When it comes to hydraulics i am an idiot. I was bleeding the front brakes on my 07' TE 510 (with the tire off) and when I went to remount the tire i see the pads are stuck together. I tried to pry them apart with a screwdriver, but before i screw everything up by using a pry bar, I want to see if there is a "correct" procedure to rectify.
Thinking back . . . .My 14 y'ld niece was sitting on the bike with the tire off and squeezing the break lever to death pretending she was Speedracer as i sat there and laughed taking pictures. Hence, (maybe) my problem?
 
You'll be fine doing it this way...start with a small, flat screwdriver, to get a gap big enough for the next larger size...and so on...go 'slowly' so you don't effect the surface of the pad too much-if this doesn't work smoothly, try cracking the bleeder on the caliper slightly...just enough to bleed down some pressure..should work fine.
cment;21604 said:
Thinking back . . . .My 14 y'ld niece was sitting on the bike with the tire off and squeezing the break lever to death pretending she was Speedracer as i sat there and laughed taking pictures. Hence, (maybe) my problem?
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your bigger problem is finding 'Speedracer' her new bike! :D
 
You should be fine as long as you didn't add any fluid to the reservoir. If you added fluid to the reservoir, you will get a hydraulic lock when you run out of air space at the top of the reservoir, so you will need to bleed some out. :)Ken
 
Thanks Roost and Joliet.

I am giving it shot now. I am psyched just got my rekluse pro delivered today too. It is going to be a fun time in the garage this weekend.
 
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