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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Rad shrouds

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I love the look of the rad shrouds on my Husky. But why do they have to be two piece?
I am constantly getting bits of branch and bush jammede in there, and one side has now torn free. Is there a solution to this problem as it is starting to get expensive?
 
the design is for quick maintenance, one screw removes the tank along with separating the shrouds. There are always plusses and negatives to all engineering logics.
You are correct about the branches and sticks issue. Its something we all just live with when bush wacking our Huskys.
 
Shame no one makes a one piece panel really. I have now resorted to riveting this set together, which i have to say doesn't look that good unless you really like the Mad Max look :confused:
 
Next time try running Black Duct tape on the inside and bring it over the joint to the outside slightly. I have not had that problem with brush anymore plus I have not broken any of the tabs knock on wood.
 
On my TE250, have drilled two very small holes between tank shroud and rad conveyor, small piece of safety wire through keeps sticks and branches out, but can be removed trailside if you need to remove tank, and easy to replace
 
Brad_O;29320 said:
On my TE250, have drilled two very small holes between tank shroud and rad conveyor, small piece of safety wire through keeps sticks and branches out, but can be removed trailside if you need to remove tank, and easy to replace
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I did the same thing with cable ties--definitely keeps the foliage out.
 
Where I ride it's so tight I'm always tearing off the shrouds if I leave them stock. After going through at least 3 sets of shrouds, I purchased a set of UFO tank shrouds ( $25/ea. w/out sticker) and a spare set of rad shrouds($10 ea.) and cut them back to almost the front off the tank. It really doesn't look bad if you take the time to line up the cut lines for the shrouds( I mount them first then use a grinder with a cut-off wheel). No more torn or broken shrouds and it only takes 10 min. to switch them out if I want to dress up the bike for an "open trail" run.
 
Instead of using zip ties and lock wire, use a DZus fastner so you can undo it quickly and it looks great too!

Where the tab is on the rad panel drill both the rad panel and the tank panel so you can hold the pair together with your little anodized dzus :thumbsup:

Alec
 
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