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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
TE450 Bike Rebuild (orignally "Lots of metal last oil change!")
- Thread starter BCVisin
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BCVisin;75609 said:
How many miles on the Dez H/T rear tire?
BCVisin;75616 said:
Looked pretty worn so i knew you had some good miles on it. I know a lot about their IT and ST tires but not HT as we don't get much use for that up here. I do have one mounted to my DS bike. I take it you liked it? Any feed back for future customers would be good. Thanks.
I ordered the 130, but that was really just too big for my bike. It ate the mud flap and wore a hole through it. I think I'm going with the 110 or 100 next time.
That tire has a lot of miles on it. 2 Baja rides (320mi & 435mi), a CA/NV Dual sport ride 363mi, a ride from my house in Temecula to Idyllwild ~200mi and 3 weekend desert camping trips at about ~100 miles each trip. So it may be closer to 1600 miles on that tire. It has lasted longer than any other tire I have ran, including the Maxxis Desert IT. It feels like it sticks better than the Maxxis. It is not as soft and grippy as some of the Dunlops I have ran, but those didn't last nearly as long. Probably 200 - 300 miles on that tire are pavement.
I am running the HT on the front as well, and that has been through 2 rears, so I would guess 2500 on that one. It has held up pretty well, but I am probably not going to get that front again. I feel like it isn't as stable as the Pirelli MT18 that I had on before, but that has been discontinued and replaced by the Pirelli Scorpion XCMH. I may give that a try. Not sure yet.
-Blake
fitness2go
Husqvarna
AA Class
fitness2go
Husqvarna
AA Class
thanks for the tire info, thats fantastic mileage out of those. I would try the Enduro IT front, hooks up great and long miles out of it.
The oil pump definitely had wear from all the metal floating around, but he says he has seen MUCH worse. He wiggled the flywheel and said that there is some play, but not necessarily too much for the miles I have on the motor. We decided to go ahead and split the case, and replace the bearings and oil pump. He will check the valves, piston, and cylinder. Hopefully all that is in good shape or that's more $$$.
While he is in there I'm going to have him install a counter balancer which will hopefully take some of the vibes out. He is going to findo out how long it will take to order the parts, and let me know what he finds when he splits the case. Hopefully I can a day off work, or go there some afternoon during re-assembly as I want to see all this and learn how to put it all back together.
Also I am thinking about painting the frame white. Possibly powder coat it, but again, that will add to the cost. If powder coating is too much $$, what about rattle cans? Will that just chip off right away? Has anyone painted a frame before? Any tips?
Here are a few photos:
There is some really good rattle can paint these days. Might be OK and would be semi EZ to touch up. Might see if apliance paint muight be the right color, very durable. Powder coating a frame is not EZ. Must be masked and blasted. Then masked again and shot / baked. Then anywhere there are contact points need to be sanded and such. If you rattle can it make sure you prep it really well, the most important part of any paint job. Clean and well sanded.
fitness2go
Husqvarna
AA Class
BCVisin;75871 said:
Might as well go for it at this point.
fitness2go
Husqvarna
AA Class
Don't forget to finalize the muffler repair job you did in Baja in Feb 2009, but knowing you that was done a long time ago.
Also, when painting, don't cover up any frame numbers or selling/transferring to someone else will be difficult with the dmv if it ever needs to be inspected.
