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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Winter Maintenance

Mercury264

Mercury264

Husqvarna
AA Class
Had a very enjoyable day on Friday blasting through the woods but I think that may well have been my last ride of the season.

So....I need to figure out what maintenance to do over the winter.

Here's my list so far:

Definitely:
Chain
Sprockets
Rear tire
Check valve clearances

Maybe:
Swing arm bearings
Forks - re-spring, new fork seal
Steering head bearings

Anything else I missed ? Should I do my maybe list ?
 
HuskyDude;10550 said:
Why Put it away?
Just keep riding.....:thumbsup:
Here's a friend (Guy Perrett) do'n his thing on his Husky.
Ya just gotta dress a little warmer.:D
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Sadly, that's not an option here in New England. I'd love to ride all year round and I can dress for the cold but the trails are either closed or not passable. I do ride my XRL on the road so I get my bike fix in but when the white stuff starts falling, it's time to ski :applause:
 
Is there anything else I should be thinking of looking at/doing ? As per my sig, bike is an 06 TE450 that has about 1,700 miles on it. Mainly ridden on trails here in New England so it's had a fairly hard life so far.

Water pump, oil pump ? Anything ?
 
Mercury264;10568 said:
Is there anything else I should be thinking of looking at/doing ?
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At the risk of sounding like a smart alec - maybe update your profile with your location? I had no clue you were in the NE part of the country.


I would do everything on your maybe list. If you have not had a re-valve then you could really be enjoying life in the spring time if that is in your budget (that would take care of the fork seals).

You might want to consider putting the battery in a warmer climate than the garage.
 
Coffee;10591 said:
At the risk of sounding like a smart alec - maybe update your profile with your location? I had no clue you were in the NE part of the country.


I would do everything on your maybe list. If you have not had a re-valve then you could really be enjoying life in the spring time if that is in your budget (that would take care of the fork seals).

You might want to consider putting the battery in a warmer climate than the garage.
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My bad Dean - I will update my profile.

I plan on doing all the normal winterizing stuff (stabil in the gas tank, battery out and on a tender inside etc.) but I was just wondering if there were some things I should be considering doing given the age and usage of the bike.
 
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