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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Rear Mud Guard

E

eca

Husqvarna
A Class
So I went to clean and seal the lower rear mud guard where it attaches to the rear swing arm and stop the water getting in. I noticed that the upper part was loose and moving freely. It appears that the top metal part was just attached with two pop rivets and mine have broken off. Not much clearance behind for anything else other then a rivet. Not sure how I'm going to install the one behind the exhaust manifold.

Pics not very good, but gives you an idea. The black dot is where a rivet should be. Sorry bout the rotation.

20131028_143254.jpg
 
I would drop the exhaust out of the way and go back in with #6 or #4 screws, washers and nuts. There isn't too much holding the exhaust in there. I'm sure you noticed, but the fuel tank is right behind that shield so watch out if you decide to drill. Also I'm counting 3 rivets on mine.
 
Three rivets on mine also, not two. Riv-nuts like this or this would be the ticket if there was room, but looks pretty tight so rivets may be best. Heed g-men's warning - that black plastic behind the rivet hole is your fuel tank, be careful. :thumbsup:
 
I didn't look too hard so 3 is probably the correct number. The rivet tails were still wedge between the frame mount and tank so their stock clearance wasn't so great in the first place. Something i'd check on other bikes as well. Might try a small screw from the back side. Not a fan of cheap pop rivets anyway.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top