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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

2006 Te610e Make Over

icebergstu

Husqvarna
AA Class
Ok - 30,000+ Kays on the 610 of mainly deep sandy whooped out Single Trail or 10 hrs of 1st gear Jungle trails and shes refusing to do anything even slightly related to starting.

Rear sub frame has cracked through, bars are bent beyond repair, plastics are held together with zip ties, lights dont work, chain is about to snap it has that much slack in it, the seat foam is shot, the seat cover is ripped, the dash still works perfectly which is unfknbelievable!!!

Wiring completely stuffed, worn through about 30% of wires in several places, stator wont put out much power anymore, clutch plates are almost done, radiators bent to buggery, coil lead has about 4 rolls of electrical tape holding it together and most of the airbox bolts are seized in.

So I just ordered about $1500 worth of stuff from Jeff at Halls MC to bring this fantastic motorcycle back from the dead. (JEFF YOU ARE A LEGEND MATE!!!)

The engine was rebuilt about 15,000Klm ago due to an ugly water crossing incident that I dont want to talk about so is only just run in .
The suspension front and back has the full treatment and is amazing
Wheels have just been trued and new bearings installed

So now that I have a new WR300 as my new single track weapon, I am retiring the 610 to the wonderful world of ADV.

I will add plenty of before and after pix as I go so you can see the transformation.

Stu
 
Former Glory

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State of ill repute

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So as you can see she's not in good shape!

Parts should arrive soon and the work will begin.

Stu
 
Looks like two of us are redoing a 2006. Notice my avatar. That was while I was have my battery support welded and the sub frame strengthened. Now my suspension is out getting reworked.

Good luck with your project.
 
My battery support has been welded once and this time it fell out completely as you can see in the last 2 photos.

Im going out to pull it down to engine and frame only now.

Will post more pix and show you more damage soon.

Stu

If anyones interested in seeing what type of riding this bike has been through in the last 30,000klm then please follow the links.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl2blA9qFXE


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj6h21WBvIc


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lff5q5PsAuA


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq-UY9cm7-Y


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Od-mq4AvzM
 
All parts arrived this week so Sat Arvo I will start the business.

This is gunna be different.

Some of you may like it and some wont.

Stu
 
Looks cool.
I have a 2011 TE449
Now I am thinking of an additional bike for adventure rides.
How does you maint sched compare to the 449 Oil every 300mi.
 
Looks cool.
I have a 2011 TE449
Now I am thinking of an additional bike for adventure rides.
How does you maint sched compare to the 449 Oil every 300mi.
If you ride like Stu then oil every 300 is about right. I change oil on the 610 every 800-1000 miles. In the book it says 3000 miles for oil. In general the 610 is an easy keeper compaired to the 310-449-511
 
Had a glitch...

After replacing everything electric and getting the fuel right the dirty little slut wont even consider starting....

In at the shop now.

We are taking the head off.

Bike looks awesome though...some may approve and others may not but I like it!

Pure ADV now...15/45 sprocket combo, new seat, new wiring, new fuel lines, new chain, new sub fram, new bars, new plastics, new exhaust brackets, big tank, Giant Loop...

Stu
 
Had a glitch...

After replacing everything electric and getting the fuel right the dirty little slut wont even consider starting....

In at the shop now.

We are taking the head off.

Bike looks awesome though...some may approve and others may not but I like it!

Pure ADV now...15/45 sprocket combo, new seat, new wiring, new fuel lines, new chain, new sub fram, new bars, new plastics, new exhaust brackets, big tank, Giant Loop...


Stu

Pictures picture picture!!
 
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