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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Ty and I are working on a new CNC machined oil breather that can be mass produced. You will be able to open it and clean it out. Anodized, laser etched, etc.[/What would get into it that you would need to clean it out , does it increase oil capacity ?Ty and I are working on a new CNC machined oil breather that can be mass produced. You will be able to open it and clean it out. Anodized, laser etched, etc.
I hope I dont have to get into my bank acct and clean it out to get one of these beauties when you and Ty finish them hahaTy and I are working on a new CNC machined oil breather that can be mass produced. You will be able to open it and clean it out. Anodized, laser etched, etc.
Just in case, there will just be that option.What would get into it that you would need to clean it out , does it increase oil capacity ?
Yea, I don't know what the total costs are yet, but I know that Ty doesn't gouge people, most of his stuff is sold barely over cost, it's a wonder he even makes a living.I hope I dont have to get into my bank acct and clean it out to get one of these beauties when you and Ty finish them haha
I wasn't refering to my design that siphons oil out, BMW's design does that and is why we have oil in our filters.
I understand what you are saying. The 449 case is a bit odd though, it has 5 compartments. It has the crank area which is sucked dry by pump #1, also blow by gasses are sucked through by #1 pump, so that area is completely sealed. 2. Far left side is compartment 3. rear right center is main oil storage. 4. right primary clutch cover and where pump #2 draws from. 5. clutch basket area. Gas flows from compartment 1 to 2 to 3 and then to 4 where it goes throught the torque limiter and out the breather.
Teacher by going right out you mean up the cam chain shafts ? .... I couldn't help myselfIt will vent better. It won't have to go through the torque limiter, it can go right out.
I think that its really cool that Ty designed parts for a bike that ends up as a stock component! Did he design any other parts that made it through the factory production process?Thanks for the complement Wheelin! Actually Ty is genius, his knowledge of motorcycles towers over mine. Just the other day I was adjusting my rear brake on my 511 and noticed the little round adjuster. Ty designed that, on all of our 449/511's and Husqvarna manufactured it. Ty sells the anodized version, bling bling, oh yea.. haha. But yes, many of the parts on our bikes was designed by Ty.
Well then tell him I am impressed with his work!!Ty Davis was the factory
race team leader for Husqvarna, his testing and input changed the 2010 449 (yes 2010) to what you see now in the 11-13 models.