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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Round II - '72 450 Restoration
- Thread starter mike328
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Also sorry about photo quality..kinda blurry
side note:for those who store their photos on DVD/CD & use a sharpie/magic marker to label them. I recently learned that the ink in these detorriates the media, and the photos are unreadable. Sharpie now makes a marker specifically for DVD etc.
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metalhof
Husqvarna
AA Class
FYI, I had the same issue on a 74 250 mag that I restored a few months back except the lip was entirely gone in about a 30 degree section. Built it back up with weld (not sure what rod my brother used, for he welded it up). I Was then able to recut the brake face and groove on a Prototrak Bridgeport.
Metalhof...nice bike in your avator & Thanks for the info I like keeping that as reference material..Any idea what caused this for both of us?
retro rocket
Husqvarna
AA Class
I went to a motorcycle salvage yard, actually to have a cable made, but me & the owner started talking about brake backing plates. He told me where to look in his yard, I found a 360 sportsman brake backing plate & IT TOO was worn like mine. I didnt buy any brake backers but I am beginning to see a "theme".
I am beginning to think its the brake arm stay & when those bushings go out at the Brake backing plate and where the brake arm connects to the frame..you get the "flex" of the hub then the wear. The 360 Sportsman's bushings were worn out or gone...cant remember now... its just a theory but I'm gonna follow up & ask John Lefevere see if he has any ideas. I bet he will know.. Both my bushing are deterroiated..the rubber surrounding them is almost like a thick oil consistency that 'rolls' off & dissintegrates to a thick rubbery grease..with very small chunks of rubber. I seen the same detorration on the old carburetor "o" rings
BTW the salvage yard I went to, the guy has a Maico 501, he traded a used tire for it!.. a Bultaco pursang signed by jim pomeroy.. a montesa cappra, etc..
I am going to get new 3/8 bolts with approximately the same shoulder & cut them to length... I will be using the BUFO from my '71 400 for the "original".... now need to build a jig to cut the bolts to length...continuing
offyatindy
Husqvarna
A Class
meanwhile, since I was taking photos of my 400 spark arrestor I decided to gather parts and show the progress on my 450.
Wheels drilled, had to send to Buchannons to drill...Woodys superlaced the SS spokes..
These are new Akront Morad rims....
Brakes...one set is SBS....the other with the cuts into the shoe are a set I picked up, thought I would give them a try...the SBS feels more aggressive..I may put that one on the rear
