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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
TE/TC P3 Blue Carbon Skidplate
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Big Timmy
Husqvarna
Pro Class
As if that would have mattered after the first few rides. It's a nice piece.
It's a lot tougher than the stock for sure and is easy to remove for oil changes and filter screen checks.
You can barely see the bubble or imperfection looking at it in the picture.
It uses it's own front and rear mounts and the front mount is adjustable. Rear mount block is Billet aluminum and loops around frame.
Stock front mount just gets removed.
It doesn't resonate vibrations like some aluminum skid plates will often do.
kitcat
Husqvarna
A Class
Big Timmy
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Mine took a bit of trimming to get it to work properly, once the rear bracket was mounted to loop around the frame. I had to take a sanding disc to the skid plate itself just to shorten it's length a bit extending rearward so it would just snap onto the rear frame tube while angled downward.
A thump of the hand is all it takes now and lift it up tight to install the front bolts. It's pretty easy to do.
I've had it off 3 times or more since installing and done my third oil change so far and it's ready to go for a ride today. Bike only has 11 hours or so on it.
sethmg
Husqvarna
A Class
Also, any info on your trailer? Mine's similar, but not as clean as yours appears to be! I'll try to post pics.
Thanks!
kitcat
Husqvarna
A Class
Thanks! The trailer is a collapsable trailer from Dave Cooper http://www.davecooper.co.uk/bike_trailers.asp and it is first class. 6 chunky bolts hold it together so it has 3 parts, axle and 2 sections the bike sits on. It packs small enough to go on the back seat of my Suzuki Swift. Assembly takes less than 5 minutes.
The P3 skid plate was specific for my bike and year according to its bag it came in. As I mentioned previously, the wrong size front mount came with it but the correct one came the next day. One edge needed a light filing underneath the oil check bolt to fit snugly. I had to file out the slot because the skidplate is curved there and was pushing out the rubber exhaust mount. It was trial and error to get it right, not wanting to file away too much. In all, what should've been a half hour job, probably took 2 hours!
sethmg
Husqvarna
A Class
Good stuff. Thx for the link to the trailer; that's what I had in mind when I started building mine, but I had to cobble it together at the last minute in order to make it on our big spring ride. My brothers were giving me a hard time because I've got an extensive welding background, yet the trailer was held together with self-tapping sheet metal screws! Oh well, some day I will re-do it the right way...
Cheers!