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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Aftermarket headlight options

I went down the Scooby route, easy to do and much better light. For my weight (230) the light lines up perfectly on the road. Thanks to socaltrailrider too for the pics, they made it so I only needed to go to the hardware store once. BTW, I used 1/4" spacers.

Chris
 
I saw a prototype LED retrofit light that was nearly finished. Should go right in to the old light housing with minor (if any, knowing George) mods. Since it is fairly unique I will not describe it too much other than to say it will pull about 9 watts. It will have some adjustability for what would pass for high/low beam. It is nicely made up in aluminum and vented (maybe billet in the end model, he's not sure) and looks heavy but isn't. He's using his 08 TE testbed bike for this. I think he's got his FI mod just about ready for the red plastic connector fix. Anyone got a broken one...??? PM me.

He gets a lot done when I'm not over there shootin' the breeze about world politics.:D
 
glangston;37194 said:
I saw a prototype LED retrofit light that was nearly finished. Should go right in to the old light housing with minor (if any, knowing George) mods. Since it is fairly unique I will not describe it too much other than to say it will pull about 9 watts. It will have some adjustability for what would pass for high/low beam. It is nicely made up in aluminum and vented (maybe billet in the end model, he's not sure) and looks heavy but isn't. He's using his 08 TE testbed bike for this. I think he's got his FI mod just about ready for the red plastic connector fix. Anyone got a broken one...??? PM me.

He gets a lot done when I'm not over there shootin' the breeze about world politics.:D
Click to expand...

He showed me that stuff on Monday, cool looking light and the FI mod/fix is awesome.
NOW!
Stay away from him, he is supposed to be working on my SM610. :D :lol:
 
Lynx fairing

DSCN0551lg.jpg
 
Are you guys finding that there's enough power to run the H4 55/60w really well? Any battery issues after prolonged slow stuff?
 
I just recently bought the Acerbis Dimension headlight. Pretty much went for it because it was just a simple and good looking light.

Haven't wired it up yet as I couldn't find my solder. But so far it looks to be pretty good.
 

Attachments

  • Image1120.jpg
    Image1120.jpg
    89.1 KB · Views: 86
  • Image1119.jpg
    Image1119.jpg
    84.6 KB · Views: 85
I decided to go the BD glass lens/H4 retro fit/upgrade route. I have been going back and forth over the available options. Thanks to scooby & socal, and revisiting this thread many times, I have seen the light. :) The smooth lines of the stock headlight shell is for me.

I sourced the BD glass H4 lens, BD 3w running light, PIAA 55/60w star white bulb, and a 90 degree ceramic rubber shielded H4 plug for under $110 shipped. Plan to post up pics of the install when parts arrive.
 
Update...Well I got the parts I mentioned but ended up ordering the rest of the parts to complete a BD headlight. I have the BD lens but it did not have enough clearance. Even with a 90* plug and the lens flush against the Husky shell the rubber boot on the headlight plug would rub the head tube. I was not happy/secure with that so I had to admit defeat and shelve the Husky shell :cry: and ordered the BD shell and straps to go that route.

I did find the H4/DOT UFO Ray headlight for cheaper then the BD and like the looks of it better. If I didn't already have half the BD I would have bought the UFO. The TE 250 will probably get the UFO. :thumbsup:

edit: The BD straps are way to small in diameter, they wont fit 50mm forks. I had to drill out the holes on the bd shell and use the stock straps. It was a real big pain. Not much material around the mounting holes in the BD shell and so had to drill holes a size smaller then needed. Had to push/poke the straps in to the shell with a screw driver. The mounting looks clean though. I took apart the L. handlebar switch and wedged a piece of inner tube in between the passing light contacts. No need (fear) to light up both the 55w and 60w filaments at the same time.
 
I am looking at upgrading the mask and headlight of my 2013 te310. And I would like to know which of the versions available on ebay or aliexpress will fit the te 2013 hassle-free (plug and play). Or what would you recommend. Attached below is the photo of the mask and headlight I want to install but not sure if it will fit.
 

Attachments

  • F134FFB1-D305-42E6-A789-85DA8E547602.png
    F134FFB1-D305-42E6-A789-85DA8E547602.png
    160 KB · Views: 17
  • 8945647C-3A04-4995-9565-2CD9F3554E2A.jpeg
    8945647C-3A04-4995-9565-2CD9F3554E2A.jpeg
    331.7 KB · Views: 18
Juan Giraldo said:
I am looking at upgrading the mask and headlight of my 2013 te310. And I would like to know which of the versions available on ebay or aliexpress will fit the te 2013 hassle-free (plug and play). Or what would you recommend. Attached below is the photo of the mask and headlight I want to install but not sure if it will fit.
Click to expand...
More than likely, they won’t be hassle free. If you’re pretty handy, anything is possible. I swapped my 08’s headlight to a trailtech x2 10 years ago and it took a little ingenuity to make it work, but was well worth it. The factory headlights are pretty weak.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top