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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
There are ways to get that bearing out as long as you do not have an 87-88. Last engine I put together I bought 6205 bearings that were double sealed and probably ended up with 5 or so of the seals I pried out. Not sure if the seals are the same from one bearing maker to the next. Chances are same brand bearing (SKF) could be purchaced and the seal pried out and pushed in. Depends on how used the oil can still come out along the shaft itself and around the outer race. A real seal contacts both these surfaces at least usually. On my 500 the dealer had switched that bearing as a preventative measure and the rest lasted until the starter gears wore out and soon after that the big end on the crank went bad.
Fran