• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Three in the rear!

need2boat

need2boat

Husqvarna
AA Class
I ride with a few guys that use an old pad behind the new pad on the rear brakes. They only do it on the outer pad to reduce piston travel.

I've not done it but wanted to hear if this has been around for years? pros cons. Sorry I didn't snap any pics of what it looks like. The pics below show two rear pads ones new the other got 20 hours on it.

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i have to do that on one of the kids 98 RM80 the piston sticks way out on those and it doesn't seen to have a rear brake i'v looked at a few rm80s about the same year and they all seem to be that way [don't know if they worked didn't ride them] i messed with it and messed with it no brakes i ground all the lining off one of the old pads and stuck it in there and BOOM brakes out the wazoo it still in there and working fine
 
Yea I've seen it done on a few of my friends that ride KTM and use the same pads as my 310. There is more then enough room once the pad has a few miles on them but I've never lost brakes. That said around 50-75% of pad life I need more fluid due to the piston hanging out so far. I guess with the shim that would be less of an issue.
 
It might but I'm not sure it's work doing that. I'm not having issues as much as just wondering how many others do it and the advantages to it.
 
well the OE set up ought to hold enough fluid to push the piston clear out of the caliper i had that RM all bleed out full of fluid and good pedal just no stopping power it was odd never heard of such a thing be for or since the extra pad deal was a well try it and see thing and it worked as far as benefits it acts as a heatsink/ insulator helps keeps the fluid from overheating
 
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