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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Pics of your 610!

What type of screw did you use? Seems to me screws would bend and break? I have a set of Rally stud tires and after trying to race in 1' of snow last sun, a set of long studs are on the short list.
 
darnold87 said:
This is how my '07 SM610 looks most of the time...
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Who makes that bash plate if I may ask?
 
Also look at the Hyde Racing one - maybe not as bling but the closest fitting, indestructible and most practical IMHO.
 
George Erl (Uptite) designed his plates from a desert racers perspective and ventilated them with many holes to reduce oil temperatures. He told me once how much cooler the oil runs when the ambient temperature is high compared to a less ventilated plate and it was considerable.
 
Xcuvator said:
George Erl (Uptite) designed his plates from a desert racers perspective and ventilated them with many holes to reduce oil temperatures. He told me once how much cooler the oil runs when the ambient temperature is high compared to a less ventilated plate and it was considerable.
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I can see how possibly for a desert race situation it may work but certainly for more technicall enduro situations the poly Hyde would be better because it fits closer and does not get hooked and hang up like a alu one with holes will ... it simply slides over rocks and obstacles.
 
BiG DoM said:
I can see how possibly for a desert race situation it may work but certainly for more technicall enduro situations the poly Hyde would be better because it fits closer and does not get hooked and hang up like a alu one with holes will ... it simply slides over rocks and obstacles.
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Very true, I learned a difference between a fiberglass boat and my AL drift boat on a 45 mile winter low water trip some years ago. I traded boats with a buddy and was surprised how his boat would flex and slide over rocks that would slow mine down.

I still like the idea of having lower oil temperature at all times though.
 
An oil cooler is always an option as is drilling some carefully positioned extra holes in a Hyde bashplate - best of both worlds?
 
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