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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Cam chain tension?

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Flynn

Husqvarna
A Class
Hi, I'm replacing the cam chain on my new shape 610 soon.

The bike has a manual tensioner instead of the standard auto one, which my old one had.

I am of the impression that a new cam chain doesn't need any tension on it (from the tensioner) it at all, is that correct?
 
A cam chain, new or old will need some tension on it. You can see that yourself when you install the new cc with out the mcct being installed, there will be some slack you need to get out. I would install the new cc, then the mcct before you put the fly wheel back on. You can then see/feel what needs to be done, and get it close, then fine tune it with the engine running.
 
Good idea re leaving the flywheel off, I hadn't thought of doing it that way. I guess I will just have to feel for the "right" tension. I'm guessing loose is better than tight though right? On my old bike the tensioning blade broke off it's mounting so the chain had no tension on it (unbeknown to me) but still didn't skip.
 
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