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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
in my experience when things are a bit rich that can encourage the talk back. possibly explains why it will happen a few times in a row for you.
how bad? small amount is normal unless racing imho
I do not have a picture handy though I could take one I suppose. The intermediate kickstart shaft pocket in the right case takes stress beyond the elastic limit, that pocket cracks open, a crack goes all the way up to near the serial number flat. To V out and fully repair is beyond what I would attempt with my equipment and eyesight. It possibly could be repaired maybe in a heated chamber full of argon but those guys are working on aircraft stuff and surely that pays more. The have ways to inspect the repair. That case side in my experience is less likely to have the swingarm insert problems being discussed lately and there also can be problems in the area of the drive sprocket bearing pocket on the other side. Ideally one does not want to mix and match case halves. It isn't like fixing a clutch cover the shift lever poked a hole in during a crash. This alloy of magnesium has impurities come out as it is tig welded as you most likely have experienced. It is designed to be cast and I assume without exceeding air pollution limits.
