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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

SM 630 antifreeze

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BigT

Husqvarna
C Class
Looking for a good top up antifreeze for the SM 630. Can not find the Castrol blue antifreeze that comes from the factory.Are most motorcycle Silicates free antifreeze brands ok to use.
 
To be honest I don't know enough about AF to answer well, but what I did was use a little BMW OEM antifreeze in mine (had some laying around, it's blue, and figured what the hey, it's only a little.) It's a little pricey and it's of course available at any BMW dealership.
 
I had to drain mine at one point, so I dumped it and went with the Yamaha green aluminum-safe stuff.
 
I used the blue Honda auto anti-freeze as it is the specified ethelyne-glycol type since I couldn't fine any Castrol, anywhere! Hope it is OK!
 
In the future if your only topping up a small amount skip the antifreeze and just add distilled water. Unless your bike is in really cold weather.
On all my bikes I mix automotive antifreeze with distilled water 50-50. Almost all modern antifreeze's are compatible with each other and with all kinds of metals.
 
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