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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Check your heat shield between exhaust and fuel tank

L

LED

Husqvarna
A Class
Checking the bike over prior to a ride and found the heat shield protecting the fuel tank from exhaust in front of rear wheel had come completely unfastened. Seems to have been fixed with 3 rivets, all of which apart from one were gone. The last rivet was no longer holding the aluminum heat shield and heat shield had dropped down so that the rubber flap had at some stage been wearing away on the rear tyre. Will take it to a local dealer for warranty claim and see how I go.

I'll post a photo when I work out how.

Check yours.
 
Mine's loose, I've been procrastinating & oiling the rivets to help prevent them from wearing through for just one more ride :)
 
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Thanks for the warning...
Looks like mine only ever had 2 out of the 3 rivets.
Standard 3.2mm dia x 4.8mm grip/ depth seem to do the trick...that's 1/8 x 3/16 in the old money.
Carefull with drilling out the holes...it's a weird angle and the fuel tank wall is right in the back of it.

Would've liked to get a washer over the back of the rivet for a proper "seat", but no space to get in there
(at least as long as the exhaust joiner is in place).


@ ozav8tr:
All good on yours. all rivets in place and tight.
 
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