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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

FYI long term pipe/boot guard test (UpTite)

robertaccio

robertaccio

Husqvarna
Pro Class
FYI note, no issues with product.
After @1 year of many run, vibration, boot chafe and over all trail/track hammering cycles. My Uptite mid pipe guard cracked and separated on the joggle bend aft of the forward subframe bolt(screw), also the cut radius where the holed face plate portion is joined had a crack working.
This product is a great product and has great coverage, I have nothing but praise for it, but, as with any component it too has a life cycle, and in my case the life cycle time has been reached. I have installed the OEM pipe guard, which is nice but does not cover as well as the UpTite version and now my exhaust wrap is worn through. I will eventually replace the OEM piece with a better coverage aftermarket piece again, maybe a P3 carbon one, but for the price a UpTite or Motosportz one may go back on. enjoy the ride, R
 
robertaccio;25898 said:
My Uptite mid pipe guard cracked and separated on the joggle bend aft of the forward subframe bolt (screw)
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Mine broke there as well ... not sure how many hours of riding it took though. I've been too lazy to do anything about it - so it's still on there with just the rear-most mount screw in place. Makes a bit of a buzzing noise as a result. A larger radius on that bend to the mounting tab might be a good fix to the design, but then I don't think it would get in/around the subframe properly.
 
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