• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

Water in swingarm

I am curious as to where the water is entering as well. Seems best to treat the problem rather than the symptoms.
 
It's pretty difficult to seal a unit to make it air tight. If it isn't air tight, condensation can form and cause rust problems. One common method is to drill a drain hole, as suggested earlier - For example all my steel-framed dirt bikes have drain holes at various points done by the manufacturer.
 
Some of the folks posted that their swing arm was full, that seems like a lot of condensate. That is a good point anyway. I will likely drill several drain holes and keep a can of WD-40 handy.
 
From what I read, the water is getting into the swingarm where the press plugs are holding down the rubber at the base.
Correct??

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Chuffa said:
From what I read, the water is getting into the swingarm where the press plugs are holding down the rubber at the base.
Correct??
This is the culprit, just loose fitting plastic plugs. My bike has 4000Ks and been washed once, ridden in the rain a lot and several axle deep creek crossings so water from the tyre spray pumps in there and fills it full. The rusty stains in the pic are a good sign that it is chockas . Until Husky fixes this all bikes delivered so far will have water in the swingarm. PS. I don't do photos, just got my head around www.
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Spoke to my dealer yesterday during my Strada pickup about this thread. He said the same thing. Suggested popping the plugs and putting some silicone down to seal the holes.
 
I think I'll pick up some well nuts and fender type washers with a dab of water prof grease......
 
rww said:
I think I'll pick up some well nuts and fender type washers with a dab of water prof grease......
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Sounds like a plan to me, all I was doing was giving everyone a heads up on my solution to this, you still have to get the water out somehow, maybe turn the bike upside down or remove the swingarm and turn it upside down, whatever floats your boat. Moving on to the dark brake fluid in the rear reservoir, happened on my last Brembo kitted bike.
 
Yea ....whats up with the rear brake fluid.......it gets black fast.......my Ducati's do that to the clutch fluid as well......I have to change it every 6 months.....it's a pain
 
rww said:
Yea ....whats up with the rear brake fluid.......it gets black fast.......my Ducati's do that to the clutch fluid as well......I have to change it every 6 months.....it's a pain
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Not sure, only seems to be the rear as the front fluid stays clear for years. I will change it with some nice blue stuff I happen to have, BLING.
 
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