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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

welding on chassis question te300

Interesting Robert. I had the same pipe bracket "pop" off the 250xc that I had. It was such a clean break at the weld that I figured it had to be a poor weld from the factory. I epoxied it and left it at that.
 
ptkatoomer said:
Interesting Robert. I had the same pipe bracket "pop" off the 250xc that I had. It was such a clean break at the weld that I figured it had to be a poor weld from the factory. I epoxied it and left it at that.
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I found that sometimes it's better not to weld it but braze it with silicon bronze. It's strong but has a bit more flex.
Seems to work fine as I believe scalvini exhausts are made like that.
 
I can second the brazing. Like stated above has more flex and handles vibration better. I've moved some of my swede pipes around or had to make one outta two or fix mounting tabs and brazing works great. Even on the 83 and 85 500s I have! Those make the 300 feel Cadillac haha
 
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