• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Stop Repair

Green Mtn Rider

Green Mtn Rider

Husqvarna
AA Class
Has anyone repaired a steering stop? I discovered that at some point I sheared off the right side steering stop and would like to know if there is a fix or is it a new lower triple clamp?:confused:
 
I have not this happen to me since I rode a 2 banger in the sixties. Only fix then was to file the are flat. drill a hole and insert a bolt as a substitute steering stop. Coffee et al will now be shuddering at my bush mechanics-sorry about that folks only response I know without the expense of a replacement.
 
ghte;45729 said:
file the area flat. drill a hole and insert a bolt as a substitute steering stop.
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That's what I did on one bike. Heck, I remember a bike (can't remember what it was, though) that came with bolt in steering stops.:thumbsup:
 
I sheared one of my stops off in a nasty high-side. Surgery from said high-side gave me plenty of downtime to shave down both stops flat and bolt on some steel stops from the bottom. I shaped them so the flange helps locate and offer support to the stop. Looks like my primer paint job needs a little refreshing.
Both stops from the front.
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Right stop from the front
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Right stop from the rear (at stop).
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They had to be tall because the fixed tab is so far up from the clamp. I think the butter-soft alloy and leverage from the high fixed tab is our problem here. So far it has been bombproof and dirt cheap.:thumbsup:
 
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