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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

factory lamps to Acerbis X-LED wire-up

pvduke

pvduke

Husqvarna
Pro Class
first of all, the back of the mountain bike shop was turning into a dark dungeon catch-all. it [was] a nice space with cabinets and a nice counter top.. and then dim bulb kinda flickered, sputtered on and....everything got the boot!
before (sad):

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after! (pardon the stain, it's gear lube from the ATV shop- those dont come out):

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Goal- to get the Porkinator plated- not hard to do here. I (finally) installed the factory "gift box" of goodies (no diagram, grrrrr) and got the front bits all sorted out, popped the mirror back on too. i've seen the Acerbis X-LED on another bike and thought it would look really sano on the Hoosk. first, mount the light/plate holder after a tiny trim job of the ribs in the fender- i used a dremel. wire up yellow to yellow, blue to green and tuck 'n tape the blue Acerbis lead back if you don't have a brake light switch. the wires were way different diameter so i braided them (i dropped the solder gun and it's dead- dang it!) and double-heat shrank it all using a pencil torch, not a heat gun. (cover the air filter kids, or else!) a tiny pencil torch works great in tight spots on low- just wave and shrink. (pardon the soot).

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route yer wires logically, index your screws and fire it up. it's awesome. has a plate lamp too and works on almost no voltage. it's also from Itallia!

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i trim all my ties with a nail clipper flush to the zipper-head. no cuts that way.

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i did some experimenting with and without that resistor thingy or whatever it is. the head lamp is brighter with it so i safety-wired it to the "tail" on hose clamp on the head so it would stay cooler and not heat the wires under the tank, it gets HOT. i also just noticed i need to change my brake fluid- it's TOAST! lol.

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got it smack in the middle somehow...lol. usually these things tend to be whale-tails, this one is tiny and the photos dont do it justice.

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neat as a pin....looks factory too!....figure if im going to all the trouble to install the "gift box" goodies, why not spend a couple bux and get a nice rear lamp and plate holder!

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bright as all get out...note the white LED plate lamp for DOT compliance.

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the Porkinator is a happy camper in his new spot and we are ready for inspection. yay****************************************

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momma-mia! what a great lamp and plate holder...it really is nice i am super stoked about it. that's all folks! braoooop!
 
Glad your Chinese shark egg is working for ya. It finally stopped dropping goo I hope. Nice write up duke!
 
thanks HN! yeh, hanging it out in the breeze did the trick. we did some insane hard stuff this weekend, 15 hours or so (and a sprained thumb 5 miles in, darn it!!! , made for a LONG day)....not a drip.

here's the new get-outa-jail-free card mounted. i used big patches of mongo-strentgh Velcro to mount it and set the glue off with a heat gun on low. then pop-riveted some vanity plate bolt cups (bolts are too heavy, wanted to really keep the weight down) then snapped on the 'disco-crystal' caps to cover all the holes. BLING-BLANG! lol.

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Sweet! Much less weight than one of those bling encrusted plate frames. AZ is a wonderfully free place...folks are friendly and admire each other's sidearm, you can plate a 2 stroke. I can almost remember when Kali was like that...oh wait, no I can't.
 
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