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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Speed Sensor broken, replaced

Spice Weasel

Spice Weasel

Husqvarna
AA Class
So my speed sensor packed in, sending random readings to the dash, then just reading 0.
I could have just phoned a Husky dealer, but wheres the fun in that,
Got some of these-https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10pcs-Reed-Switch-GPS-14A-14mm-Normally-Open-Magnetic-Switch Cut the broken sensor off, soldered the new switch on then heat shrink,machined a housing from 2 inch alu bar then glue the switch in and heat shrink over.Jobs a good'un. Cost-£4.68
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After the sensor broke, i cut it open as an autopsy. I was unimpressed with what i found, so looked to see if i could do better at a reasonable cost, it didnt take long to find out i could.
I believe the OEM magnetic reed switch was a glass one
I found my OEM switch housing to be fractured about 1/3rd of its length from the open end, i dont know how this may have happened, maybe water ingress & freezing action :excuseme:
The OEM housing is M8 threaded aluminium drilled down the centre 4mm diameter. The housing i made is only threaded as far as it needs to be then it is 9mm diameter, i had to drill down the centre 4.5mm diameter to fit my heat shrinked switch. The magnetic reed switches i bought are supposed to be vibration resistant and are with out any doubt significantly less fragile than the glass ones. I sealed my switch into my housing using silicone sealant, because its what i had.
This was only possible and cheap for me because i have a small lathe. I never looked into finding out how much a new speed sensor cable was from a dealer.
 
Thanks for help with my speedo :) I had multiple issue on my bike - 1. speedometer did not work and the one of pin dropped out from connector to the CPU.
My fix was done on original cable and also housing.
 

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