2008 450 TXC snowbike

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Ron MacDougall

Husqvarna

Oct 12, 2013

Hi, I am new to the forum and my husky 450. I am looking to build a snowbike with this unit. I will be using a new 2014 Mountain Horse ST kit. Has anyone on here gone down this road as yet? Anyone able to offer some suggestions for set up.

I am told that I need to set up the forks as stiff as possible, what springs would be in my 450 stock, what should I go to for the stiffest?

Will the charge coil output be enough for hot Grips?

Any suggested mods or tips would be appreciated.

Thanks

Ron