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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Full Floating question

C

CrankN

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hey i thought i'd hit you guys up with a question. Probably one you might have read about at TT but would still like your input.....

Have just done a motard conversion on my TE610, bought it 2nd hand.
The front wheel came with a 320mm oversize brake disk made by Motomaster which is full floating.

I was getting keen to get a relocating bracket to fit the calliper up but was stopped short with someone posting that i shouldn't use a full floating disk as well as the original callipers which are also full floating as it can be a safety hazzard.

I'd hate to have to fork out for another disk as well as the bracket but on the other hand don't want to put myself at risk.

I thought i would see what you guys thought on the subject.

CrankN.
 
Can't comment on the floating rotor and caliper issue but am curious to know what the potential problem is. I can say though, don't give up on the SM conversion, I have been having an absolute ball riding my TE510 with a SM conversion! :D
 
jaro51;91 said:
I can say though, don't give up on the SM conversion, I have been having an absolute ball riding my TE510 with a SM conversion! :D
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Absolutely. I like mine in SM form so much I'm actually thinking of leaving it that way and using my ATK490 for DSing.
 
i love mine too. ive read you cant/dont want to use thing too. the te caliper will fit over the 320mm rotor? i think im just going to spring for the brake kit.
 
I *thought* there were caliper relocation brackets available so the stock TE brake caliper could be used with the larger 320mm brake rotor.
 
mcinfantry;422 said:
i thought so too, but i also read the stock te caliper wont fit the "thicker" sm rotor
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If it were mine - take a quick trip to the dealer with some calipers to measure if thicknesses were the same or different.

Think the original poster was concerned that both the caliper & rotor were both 'floating'.... not sure what that means... the pads in the caliper are always floating by definition. If they were not floating the pads would not release rotor... Again a quick trip to the dealer or a quick post from someone that knows a bit about SMs might clear this issue up...
 
mcinfantry;422 said:
i thought so too, but i also read the stock TE caliper wont fit the "thicker" sm rotor
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Yeah, but my wheel has TE hubs and the brake disk is just an oversized one for the TE.
Isn't an SM disk.

CrankR.
 
Coffee;424 said:
If it were mine - take a quick trip to the dealer with some calipers to measure if thicknesses were the same or different.

Think the original poster was concerned that both the caliper & rotor were both 'floating'.... not sure what that means... the pads in the caliper are always floating by definition. If they were not floating the pads would not release rotor... Again a quick trip to the dealer or a quick post from someone that knows a bit about SMs might clear this issue up...
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From what i was told, the disk is full floater if it has the joining rings around it as opposed to a solid disk. Check out Motomaster Flame disk.

And the calliper is as you said.

CrankN.
 
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