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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Oil leaking at the near the telltail

fitz3201 said:
Went for a quick ride to get engine up to temp and came home to find the leak is from the shifter shaft. Probably cheaper and easier to just get seal and either replace myself or have local shop do work rather then haul bike 400 miles to get fixed. Does anyone know if the BMW seal can be used as a replacement?
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Judging by the manual, removal of the left cover is a royal pain. The oil tube that comes from the bottom of the crank case and goes up to the head has a tab that interferes with removing the cover. I've looked, and I can't see where it attaches to the head, so depending on how flexible that pipe is, you could be in remove airbox/gas tank territory. that would make what should be a 1/2 hour job into a nightmare (may as well check your valves while you replace the shift shaft seal.)

I suppose i'd think about grinding off the tab that holds that pipe to the cover and replacing it with a removable one - similar to what some people have used to secure their clutch cable.

Looking at how difficult some of the basic service things are on this bike, you'd think that the designers of this bike were beaten up by motorcycle mechanics when they were kids or something.

--Chris
 
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