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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Chain slide soution

ray_ray

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Hi and does anyone have a way to hold the chain slide on their bike other than the few sheet metal screws that the bike comes with?
 
ray_ray said:
Hi and does anyone have a way to hold the chain slide on their bike other than the few sheet metal screws that the bike comes with?
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If you mean the self-tappers they wind into the swinging arm, I tapped a thread into these holes and used some decent stainless socket head bolts.
 
I was thinking about using a slightlly larger bolt also ... Did you use the stock material or purchase something else and fabricate something ...
 
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I was thinking about using a slightlly larger bolt also ... Did you use the stock material or purchase something else and fabricate something ...
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If you do mean the chain slider that screws down onto the top of the swingarm, I ran a taper tap M5 down through the holes made by the tappers, then used a stainless steel M5 socket cap screw. Sorry if that's not what you mean?

Pic of the fixing, just left of chain..

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Yep I did the basically the same as moto66- I did use some permatex adhesive as well but it probably didn't do anything after a week.
 
That's it and looks good... good looking chain also ... I'm gonna have to do something along UR line as my sheet metal screws have a tendency to come out and I just chewed up my slide material ...
 
ray_ray said:
That's it and looks good... good looking chain also ... I'm gonna have to do something along UR line as my sheet metal screws have a tendency to come out and I just chewed up my slide material ...
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Chain's just a non O ring DID job. Not expensive. The steel hoops were already there in the slider - albeit rusting so I got them chromed
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- and the fasteners are as stated. Also drop a bit of low strength threadlock on the screws, save any backing out. Could do that on yours for a cheap fix. Pink is low strength, blue med, red she's glued ha ha.
 
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