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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Stock chain guide to BRP

JPinNC

JPinNC

Husqvarna
AA Class
'09 TXC 250

The stock chain guide wears super fast...need to replace in a hurry.

I am considering a BRP moto for a replacement, have heard good things about the wear. For those that have one, is the fit good...any issues? I'll probable try to order one up soon. I rode for 3 hours in sandy/red mix clay on Friday, and my OEM chain guide is wasted.
 
4 years so far on BRP.....has some battle scars from sharp rocks, limbs and a broken master link scratching up the inside slightly, but holding up great
 
BRP guides are much more resilient to hits from rocks, roots and miscellaneous trail trash than the aluminum framed stock guide. They are literally a bolt on item without removing the chain! I'll always install one from now on after experiencing both the stock 08 510's flimsy version and my current 250 '10 version being bent from hits.
 
Has anybody tried using the TM designworks guide? I see that they make one for the 04-11 Huskys. My Suzuki had one on it when I bought it and it has held up really good. Just wondering if anybody has used one before and seen what they though about it. I know BRP supports this forum, but just trying to keep options open.
 
The TM version is nearly the exact same design as the BRP. Have heard good things about it as well.
 
I just put a TM on my bike. It looks like a good product but I hated the hardware. To get the front two bolts in I had to spin them with an impact wrench while pressing on them. Unfortuntely I had to go through this three times as I kept removing it to bend my mounts to get it lined up correct (Not a TM problem, I think the mounts were off from the factory). The bolt heads are 13mm which is not only an odd size but they end up almost touching so you can only get an open end wrench on them when torqueing them down. So although you can technically take the chain off in one piece I will continue to remove the master link as it is a lot easier then taking the chain guide off. The odd thing is that I looked at a buddies YZ250 with a TM guide and his hardware is wimpy compared to what comes for the Husky.
Anyway, mounting was a minor annoyance but other than that it looks like a good guide that should last as long as I own the bike.
 
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