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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
GPR exhaust should do the trick for you.
My 510 had made that weird chirp with the factory pipe that had the cat. Still made it with the arrow with the power up kit. It's just some weird husky thing I guess. I've never heard another brand do it, just the husky's."wedge up against the spark arrestor and not allow it to vibrate."
Good advice, although I'm not sure the TR650 chirp is vibration. It really is an odd sound that occurred with deceleration and presumably a lot of back pressure in the exhaust. I can't say for certain that it wasn't vibration because the head spacer fix did snug things up too.
The other thing that's an unknown - at least on mine - is the effect of the catalytic converts on exhaust flow and chirp issue. Hard for me to say because I dealt with the chirp shortly after getting the bike and the catalytic converts were intact. Then somehow while inspecting the interior of the pipes I notice large honey comb-like things in them and figured it had to be some sort of beehive or maybe dirt daubers (crafty buggers) so of course I removed the offending blockage. Chirp still gone but no way to tell if simply removing the cats would have made it disappear withouut any other effort.
had a look around no luck, anyone seen any pics anywhere..?
I never posted any because I suck trying to do phone pics. If someone really wants to see what I did I guess I can pull it apart and show pics of parts and installation. Might take me a bit to get around to it, and the pictures will still suck, but I'll do it if necessary.
I used a seal removal tool on mine, which I bought cheap at a local auto parts stores. It's got a couple of 'hooks' to either side, and you can rotate around the baffle and break it free a bit at a time. One muffler was easier than the other, on my TerraAnyone got tips on how to extract the spark arrestors on a Terra that has done 13500 km and they are well stuck in there from day one. Circlips are out and mufflers off with penetrating oil in the spark arrestor area but nothing works.
Anyone got any pics of the circlips to be removed to get the spark arrestors out?I used a seal removal tool on mine, which I bought cheap at a local auto parts stores. It's got a couple of 'hooks' to either side, and you can rotate around the baffle and break it free a bit at a time. One muffler was easier than the other, on my Terra
Anyone got any pics of the circlips to be removed to get the spark arrestors out?