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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Kickstand failed - anyone else?

DrRobotenstein

DrRobotenstein

Husqvarna
AA Class
I have a 2011 SMR511. My kickstand has suffered a recent fall apart. From what I've seen I think this kickstand design has been on many huskys even pre BMW. So I'm hoping someone else has had this issue and has found a nice fix. Any feedback would be much appreciated.

From what I can remember, the stud sticking out of the frame had a notch in it and the plate that the springs hook to had a mating keyhole slot. Looks like the stud sticking out of the frame sheared off at the notch. Not sure if the plate is significantly worn or not. It's worn, but not sure if it's significant.

Anyone else have this issue? If so, anyone have a good fix?

I'm considering cutting off the used-to-be notched stud and drilling it out and replacing with a bolt of required length, and replacing the plate with.... something....

Pics of the plate and sheared off stud below:
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Cut the stud off and use a ring of inner tube ziptied to the subframe to hold it out of the way.

Or tap a thread onto the end and use a nut on it.
Or weld a new end cap bit on it.

The choice is yours.

The plate is easy enough looks like two holes drilled in a bit of 14 gauge would do it.
 
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