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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Ok, so I think I just lost third gear...

Yes, and no, I'm leaving it alone for now, everything still looks so new. Maybe next time it's down I'll throw in a high comp piston.

Right now, you can still see the original crosshatching pattern from the factory cylinder hone over the full length of the cylinder.
 
RDTCU said:
Just waiting on parts from Husky, they're in the middle of their warehouse move... I gotta stop breaking non-stocked items! :banghead:

Can't really complain though, it's the first real mechanical issue I've had in 10K miles, and it was my fault...

BTW, nixed the TE gear swap, after a closer look, those particular gears will be just fine.

Cam chain and screen should be here tomorrow, gears within the next few days if they're consistent on turnaround.

Weather's been awesome, it's been torture...
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Can I ask how it was your fault?

Also, I feel your pain. The husky broke, and I kid you not it hadn't even been 24 hours yet when I was in town running errands on the ninja and my clutch cable snapped.. two bikes in less than a day. We just got through a week and a half of solid rain here, it's been 20-25 degrees celcius here all week so far.. torture is an understatement :mad:
 
notoriouz said:
Ouch..
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Only thing I can figure that would bend the fork.
Can't tell the bike's been down other than some scuffs on the radiator shrouds, I've got full sliders and the peg sliders and handguards will always take the brunt of the hit.

First time was some sand and grit, second time was some leftover sand and salt from a snowstorm...

Both times I was basically balls-out peg scrubbing, so I was already close to the ground :p
 
Well, according to Husqvarna, they are indefinitely out of stock on ALL the trans gears. WTF?
A less than 2yo bike and I can't get replacement parts?

So my question is, does anybody know someone that might have some in stock? Hall's is out for the day, but I left a message.
 
I'll have the part number list in the next day or so. Just got in the cam chain I ordered from Hall's 3 weeks ago.
 
Haha I hope so. I know Husky is mid-move right now, hopefully they'll get all sorted soon...
 
Have a lawyer call them! They by law have to keep parts for a bike at least 7 years after they stop production.
 
Per Upstate they're supposed to start shipping parts again on the 10th.
They've got several shipping containers full of parts on their way to Austria and more in customs here heading to Ohio.

Guess we'll see.
 
RDTCU said:
Per Upstate they're supposed to start shipping parts again on the 10th.
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If the only issue with getting parts is a 2 week delay because of the buyout, that would be a 'win'. I hope you get your parts, but yes call around to dealers that may have them on their shelves.
 
Coffee said:
If the only issue with getting parts is a 2 week delay because of the buyout, that would be a 'win'. I hope you get your parts, but yes call around to dealers that may have them on their shelves.
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I'm really hoping that's all it is. It took two weeks of hounding from Upstate for Husky to tell them they were "out of stock"
 
Husky parts are SUPPOSED to start shipping again today, since they're scheduled to be all settled into their new warehouses now. Guess we'll see...

Been storming the last week and a half, but it still sucks being bike-less...
 
RDTCU said:
Husky parts are SUPPOSED to start shipping again today, since they're scheduled to be all settled into their new warehouses now. Guess we'll see...

Been storming the last week and a half, but it still sucks being bike-less...
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If it makes you feel any better, both of mine are still broke as well. Been hating myself for a couple weeks now, this is torture.

Hopefully be ordering my parts by Wednesday of this week. Hope you get back on your bike soon, happy thoughts!
 
notoriouz said:
If it makes you feel any better, both of mine are still broke as well. Been hating myself for a couple weeks now, this is torture.

Hopefully be ordering my parts by Wednesday of this week. Hope you get back on your bike soon, happy thoughts!
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What did you break ?
 
STANIMAL said:
What did you break ?
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Destroyed one fork and gauled up another, gauled the sides of a couple gears and rounded the dogs off.

Probably bent the fork a while ago stuffing the shifter into pavement, didn't get bad enough to start slipping off the dogs until that last ride home. Shifted into 3rd mid wheelie, instant false neutral and angry sounds.

Puttered home on 1st, 2nd and 4th. Fork was too bent let it go into 5th or 6th.

Right now, everything's in or on the way except for 3 gears, which NOBODY has apparently....

Part numbers:
800074863 gear
8000H3068 gear
800074864 gear
 
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