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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

One Way to Reinforce Stock Rear Rack

Ignaciob

Ignaciob

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I've ridden 8000 miles with a Pelican 1520 case bolted to my stock rear plastic rack and no signs of breakage. However, it's a b-i-t floppy and since I added BR Moto side racks I fabricated an extra support to beef things up.

I initially tried some 1/2 aluminium l bracket, but decided to go with 1/2" square tubing. First trick was cutting some reliefs to make some 45 degree bends. Last time I checked 22 1/2 x 2 = 45.

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Angle grinder action (yeah, I staged this for the picture....I couldn't operate the camera and make sparks at the same time).

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A little gentle tweaking and I had some nice 90 degree bend joints read to be welded.
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A little help from a work colleague with a MIG welder.
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A few bore holes for bolts and time to dry fit. At this point I tried pushing down on the rack and can tell it's exactly what the doctor ordered!
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A side view shows how it ties in with the BR Moto rack.
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A little rattle can action later.
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And mounted up with the Pelican reinstalled....it's the right amount of extra beef with just a little added weight. No way I'm going to have this happen now.
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Nice job. I had thought about getting the BR Moto rear rack but I quite like this and could make it myself!

How did you bolt on the Pelican?
 
8000 miles is nice to know. I've been a little reluctant in mounting my top case. I've only seen one post with a broken rack. Has this happened to anyone else?
 
Nice job. I'm planning on doing something similar with a Tourtech rack on the BR Moto bag mounts.
 
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