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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Steering problems??

sussurf

sussurf

Husqvarna
AA Class
I certainly did.
So I stripped the front end to change the steering head bearings and look what I found:


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This time I used a trick I read about on-line to remove the races- weld a bead around the inner diameter of the races and they just fell out. I've had a horrible time doing this on other bikes.

The factory bearing was crap. It had a plastic roller cage, SKF made in Brazil.

I'm sending the forks off to Terry Hayes Shock Treatment for his upgrade mod. I was going to do the YZ conversion using Aquatic's kit but it got a bit costly after buying forks, then re-building them plus the kit cost. Craig's work looks awesome though.

I considered drop-in cartridges but again, too spendy. Quoted around $2k.

Next up the rear end...
 
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