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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Billet Clutch Slave Cylinder

joedirtbike418

joedirtbike418

Husqvarna
A Class
Hey everyone over at 7602 Racing. When I was working down at GP Motorcycles, I always had questions reguarding aftermarket slave cylinders for the huskys. I am not aware that any exist, and as you guys probably know, the stock ones are garbage and wear down easily. I believe if you guys started to make these, people would line up out the door for them!
 
joedirtbike418,

If you are looking for an aftermarket slave cylinder, zip ty racing makes one. Yes the stocker can wear down after a while. We are working on something that will stop the slave cylinder from wearing down, but it isn't the cylinder housing. Will shop pics when I can, lots of summer projects in the works right now.
 
Sweet! Yea the housing itself isin't so much the problem as is the soft material that wears out on the piston wall. I recently set up a dealer account with you guys for GP about 2 months ago so anything like that I'm sure Paul (the owner) will want to stock. Keep up the good work.
 
Here is a pic of what we have been working on for the clutch problem. The stock piston has very thin walls that allow it to kick sideways as it is traveling back and forth in the slave cylinder. After a while it makes little notches in the cylinder wall and the o ring can't seal against these notches.

We built a new piston that has a thicker piston skirt. We also switched from an o ring to a quad ring. The quad ring is moved towards the back side of the piston so that it doesn't have to travel over the notches worn by the old piston. From what testing I have been able to do so far, it is working awesome. No leaks yet, and all seams to be working well.

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Nice work Clay. Hard ano might help as well. I have had better luck with round O-rings for longevity but that is primarily with rotating shafts.
 
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