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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TR 650 Radiator Rock Gaurd, el cheapo ver. #1

mag00

mag00

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I was looking around for radiator protection and saw a nice restrictive guard for $77 online. I have also seen some DIY guards made from the aluminum expanded metal for screen doors (for cats and dogs). I hunted for that aluminum expanded metal and the best price I could find was $35 at Ace.

Yesterday, at one of my steel suppliers I found this honeycomb mesh, 20ga steel, and bought a chunk. I have a pretty cool bargain store, and they carry this piping for the edges. Whala, el cheapo guard. I plan on using zip ties to fasten it to the radiator.

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I may or may not paint the mesh. Probably will, RED, LOL. I saw some expanded mesh on a KLR the other day, and it looked like they just pulled up some floor grating and cabbaged it on, jeeze it was ugly.

This stuff is a little bendy being 20 gauge mesh, but when in place seem quite strong, and should keep sharp rocks from killing the radiator.
 
How is that being held onto the radiator in that last pic? I do not see the zypties you mentioned.
 
Coffee said:
How is that being held onto the radiator in that last pic? I do not see the zypties you mentioned.
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Lightly wedged between the tank heads. On the top right corner there is a small part of the bracket it is tucked behind. It is not touching the fender. I haven't picked out the spot to zip it to yet. In past times, with electric fans, they fasten with pushpins that go through the radiator combing. I don't like that idea, because it does restrict airflow, minimally albeit, but ristriction. I think you can see smaller versions of this by looking at your radiator, and noticing the bolt heads on the front.

I'm working on the brackets for the muffler, and when I paint that stuff, will most likely paint the guard, then install it.
 
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