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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

On wheel/chain alignment (feedback requested)

EricV

EricV

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi all-

I'm curious on your experiences with this- how it looks on your 630's...

Last night I replaced my chain/sprockets. Now I know it's not best but typically I eyeball things- sight down the chain, use a screwdriver (from edge of the swingarm to just barely touching side of rim, both sides), and loosely go by the swingarm hash marks (but don't pay those too much attention as they're known to be inaccurate, in general.) The space in front of the axle blocks and the close equidistance of the adjusters is usually close enough to call it the same.

Now this time I used the Motion Pro chain alignment tool- seems pretty handy. This is it:

http://www.motionpro.com/product/08-0048

After I did that my right side block is further back by almost a full hash mark. Visually there's a clear distance difference (not huge, but like 3-4mm.) It just feels wrong, but the tire seems to spin neatly straight and the MP tool, well, shouldn't lie (in that it is what it is- and the rod is right on w/ the line of the chain.)

Are your hash marks off by that much? Just curious. I know I'm obsessive about the little things, BTW, and I should also measure from center axle each side to center axle of swingarm pivot point, each side.

Thanks!
 
The hash marks are on the part before it is welded to the swing arm, so they are not true.

They are only good for initial install of chain.
Best place to adjust and check chain alignment is in the back of a pickup, because it is easier to sight down the sprockets.
Don't look at the chain look thru it you will be able to see the sprocket alignment then adjust from there.
Later george
 
Thanks George. Yeah- I'm not gonna load it up on a truck over this :) but sure, that does offer a great sight line. I think I'll go low, instead of it going high. :) Looking through the chain to see the sprocket is good advice.
 
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