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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Hi everyone, how you doing, Im Paul and currently going through my third midlife crisis (I think)
Just got myself a nice 2008 smr510 I thought I would start off by getting to know it, by this I mean stripping it down (has 6500 miles on the clock) and rebuilding it. I should add at this point that it had no issues I just like to know the ins and outs of things and that everything is as it should be
New con rod, piston, valves clutch plates, the lot
I have some nice TKC80's to fit a new set of decals and on the way to getting out on the beaten trails around my area.
This is where my search for help begun. I have the engine back in the frame everything going nice, but.... (you could see this coming I'm sure, I am not a mechanic by any means).
All excited, I had eveything fited and turned the key, So far so good, pull in the clutch (darn modern health and safety) pushed the button and..... Click.
Try again, Click ! fuel pump primes, dash is good, checked all the eathing points, everything seems fine.
Long and short of it, I pulled the casing off the side and tried to manly turn over the engine, I hear the such, then the blow, turn again, suck, blow then stop, Its like I have hit a hard thing, wont turn any further. removed the starter and the same happens in reverse? two turns then stop.
Is anyone able to help? I plan to remove the engine this coming wekend and start going backwards until I can see something, but have to admit I'm stummed??
I must have missed something along the line but have no idea where to start
Hoping someone can get my going, other than that, she looks awesome, shame it is just decoration in the shed at the moment though
And I hope you won't be an actual dead rider for long.
Always good to have some more Brits on board.
Thanks dude
Tank will be blue to match the model year even though the tank is from an earlier model. Oh well, what you expect for a cheap used bike! lol
