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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

449 Sprocket Rubbing

cptnandre

cptnandre

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Anyone else with an '11 model rubbing their sprocket through the chain guide block? Mine is pretty severe, right out of the box. Any fix-it tips?
 
Not noticed it on my TE511 but i swapped out to a 46 rear for DS use. And i do like the new all plastic chain guide.
 
Is the chain block out of alignment? Give it a knock with a hammer and a lump of wood if so.
Some of the RXV's used to come bent, a swift hit with the ultimate spanner and they were on their way ;)
 
My '09 TE450 did the same thing. MotoXotica said that they see about 1 in 5 with this problem. The chain guide mounts are not welded on "straight". I first bent the chain guide as to not drag the chain over and wear the sprocket. My final fix was to replaced the chain guide with a BRP unit; I had to bend and file the mounts straight to make everthing right.
 
Parod said:
My '09 TE450 did the same thing. MotoXotica said that they see about 1 in 5 with this problem. The chain guide mounts are not welded on "straight". I first bent the chain guide as to not drag the chain over and wear the sprocket. My final fix was to replaced the chain guide with a BRP unit; I had to bend and file the mounts straight to make everthing right.
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Same on my 09 SM510R. I removed the chain guide and gently eased the mounting plates over using some adjustables. Then as the OE guide was half rubbed away, replaced it with a TMDesignworks item.
 

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brock said:
Is the chain block out of alignment? Give it a knock with a hammer and a lump of wood if so.
Some of the RXV's used to come bent, a swift hit with the ultimate spanner and they were on their way ;)
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Except the new one is plastic so that does not work.
 
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