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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

For those who think that a single cylinder 4 stroke is tough to work on...

letitsnow

letitsnow

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'm doing a valve adjustment on my 2000 Honda CBR600F4. That bike makes my Husky look pretty simple! The inline 4 cylinder with ram air is a mess of STUFF, and lots of valves!
 
My 2014 FE501 is one of the easiest 4 stroke bikes I've had the pleasure to work on. European engineering shines through on this one.
 
reveille said:
My 2014 FE501 is one of the easiest 4 stroke bikes I've had the pleasure to work on. European engineering shines through on this one.
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I feel the same way about my FC250. When working on that bike, it's obvious that the engineers thought about what it would be like to work on it. Whenever I work on a Jap bike, it's obvious that they didn't put much thought into that at all.
 
not always true..my 99 kaw 4 cylinder is super easy, the rocker arms are spring loaded and slide over to change the shims, i use a magnet to change them. but i have seen horror stories on other inline 4s...some are easier tho
 
On multi cylinder street bikes, the engines aren't so hard to work on. It's GETTING TO THEM through all the body work and spaghetti piles of vacuum and emission hoses that is the big pain.:doh:
 
Dirtdame said:
On multi cylinder street bikes, the engines aren't so hard to work on. It's GETTING TO THEM through all the body work and spaghetti piles of vacuum and emission hoses that is the big pain.:doh:
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And... When you add ram air to the equation, it's even worse. It's a good thing that the Honda only needs adjusting once every 15 years.
 
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