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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Help, bars are slipping

S

Stolenfant

Husqvarna
A Class
Husky TE610, PO replaced bar risers with Highway Dirt Bike risers. Bars are Axis fat taper, but they won't hold position. I've removed, cleaned three bars, Chased the threads with a tap, and retorqued everything, but they just won't hold tight anymore. They aren't extremely loose, but do slip once our twice on a ride. I don't think I can get them milled before next DS event. Any one have a suggestion other than the old "strip of aluminum can" between clamps?

Clint
 
Only proper solution is to machine the clamps so more purchase when tightened - they must be closing up completey when torqued. One would not need to take much off and could virtually do it by hand with wet/dry paper and a flat surface. The temp fix is shim stock as you say.
 
I've used a thin shim, like a coke can, before as a temporary measure and worked fine, in fact it became a permanent measure!
 
Thanks all. We used too use beer can because they were thinner aluminum, duo that's going too be the short term solution. Thanks, McKay court contact name at HDB. I'll call them too. I've been planning to replace the top clamp anyway. PO installed this one, and it's got holes for various indicator lights, and a big flat between the clamps. I'd rather have access to the round bar there for mounting stuff.
 
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