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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

So what do you think of my project?

we are really starting to like that motor in its latest WR500 form.
No need to comment about pinging/jetting on those things. thinking beyond that. glad you are progressing on this one!! keep up with the write ups as things continue to move ahead.
 
I have ridden them all and owned a few too. YZ465 to me had by far the best motor. The 490 was a horrible pinging beast that was near imposible to jet and the WR500 was ok but still liked how the IT/YZ456 ran better. The 78 YZ400 motor was VERY good and would make a great off road power-plant.
 
I am hoping mine turns out better. I have the motor apart so i can press out the swingarm through hole bushings and make new ones that fit the RMZ swing arm bolt (bigger) then it is on and should not take a ton more time.
 
It may be simpler to just have the IT bushings reamed to the RMZ diameter by a machine shop. I had this done when building my KX-KDX bike.
 
dfeckel said:
It may be simpler to just have the IT bushings reamed to the RMZ diameter by a machine shop. I had this done when building my KX-KDX bike.
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I split the cases so they could to that but the inserts are so hard a file bounces right off. Can't be reamed, bored or milled. A Carbide end mill lasted about 2 seconds. Believe me we have tried. They need pressed out and new ones made and pressed in.
 
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