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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I've been a ham fisted spanner monkey

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Oh dear. I've been playing with sprocket sizes and on putting one on pushed the sprocket output shaft into the engine a bit. Was having trouble getting the circlip in the groove so was tapping on it with hammer and screwdriver (quite lightly) but it's pushed the whole assembly in a bit. It's slightly missaligned with the chain guard on the swingarm and rear sprocket. Seeing as it was fairly light pressure that moved it can I just pull on the sprocket to bring it back out a bit or have I really ballsed it up?!

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I don't understand how you could have moved it that much. The shaft is only supposed to have .025" endplay. Is the sleeve that goes on the shaft before the sprocket there?
 
The bit the sprocket butts up to? Yeah. It's def misaligned, it's no longer level with the case saver. That much play sounds about right, maybe the whole assembly has moved? The sprocket is secure with circlip installed
 
mmm. let me know if just the outter sprocket side of the rear sprocket is worn. may have happened to mines. i tapped the sprocket with a socket very lightly
 
off to barcelona for a few days (music festival then moto gp :banana:) will try pulling it back out a bit when i get back and will report back. if not much force moved it in then not much force should move it back out. let's just hope it works and i haven't done anything really stupid. have put 25 miles on it as is and seems ok but reckon my chain won't last too long if i leave it like it.

another lesson learned!
 
well this is embarrassing. had a look at the bike today and realised the sprocket was on the wrong way round! corrected and the chain is now straight.

oh dear. thought i'd post as if nothing else, at least i contribute here by making people laugh at my stupidity! chain and sprockets lesson number 1 learnt! :doh:
 
Kudos to you for outing yourself and nothing to be embarrassed about as it helps others learn. Glad it worked out!
 
He he, had to hold my hand up. Sometimes the simplest things aren't the first things I think of!
 
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