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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Won't start - no codes

Bike is up and running...:banana:

So after racking my brain, playing with the bike for hours here and there, I enlisted the help of a friend who is a union electrician and motorcycle builder. Told him I would take him out for a steak dinner if he could diagnose the problem for me...haha

What we found:
- weird grounding and lack of Om resistance both at starter and starter solenoid
- starter solenoid not working to 100% but functions (I've ordered one and will install this coming weekend)
- the terminal/stud on the starter motor was loose and the little o-ring was ripped/tweaked
- the negative wire coming off the starter solenoid gets really hot

What we did:
- took starter apart - found no damage
- tightened stud on starter and installed a new o-ring that is just a little thicker
- ran thicker gauge wiring between starter solenoid and battery and solenoid to starter

Everything seems right again, and runs great.

Thanks again for all the help/advice, I really appreciate it. I hope I can offer some help to you guys in the future!
 
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