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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Exhaust storage tube

Philthy

Philthy

Husqvarna
A Class
Here's a couple of pics of how the exhaust convertion went. Firstly thanks to the guys contributing to the flow through exhaust mods. My right pipe is now running as a flow through with the 2" perf pipe, some SS wrap and stuffed with exhaust fill, sounds awesome esp on decel, maybe a tad louder with a deeper exhaust note.
Left side which has the small stub section off the mid pipe now has a disc welded into the stub and another welded into the hole left where the cat was cut off, see pic. Between the two blanks there is a number of air holes drilled to avoid heat buildup travelling into the storage can. This has worked a treat with the tube staying cool right the way down.
For the end cap I wanted to keep the standard look and have ground out slots where the rivet holes were in the end cap. There is a tight rubber strap riveted half way along the tube which pulls the end cap into place and doesn't fall out.
While its not a lot of storage (about 4 litres worth) its sufficient for all my tools and spares I'd carry on a long trip, which puts those weighty items a bit lower. Overall I'm pretty happy with the outcome
 

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Love it! I've been wanting to do something like this to my own. Maybe a project for next winter.
 
I've seen your weather forecast, plenty of time! :D

Currently working on something similar. Little larger capacity but need to watch out for the caliper.
 
Haha. If I didn't have the Hawk partially apart already, I'd consider tearing into it. One project at a time, have to have at least one bike ready to go when spring finally does arrive.
 
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