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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Link to the E-start install guide?
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Lay the bike on its left side.
Remove brake pedal at pivot, spring and push to the rear.
Disconnect the oil line at the engine side cover.
Remove upper right side oil filter bolt and all the case side cover bolts.
Remove clutch, impact gun fir center nut.
Remove crankshaft nut, REVERSE thread!!! Remove everything on shaft including the sleeve, its junk now.
Pull off gear, remove the idler gear that drives the oil pump.
Tap out the plug where the starter shaft enters. It taps out towards the center of the engine, and will fall out under the carb.
Assembly.
Thin spacer then big washer on crank, then the clutch/gear which only goes into the gear one way. There is no ring as shown on the install "guide". Its the C clip ring on the starte clutch assembly, already installed on that piece.
The big gear should only freewheel counterclockwise now.
Nut, locktight, I popped it together with the impact gun.
Install oil pump drive gear.
The other gears only go together one way i to the H frame that retains them. Look at the orientation of the gear cluster that the actual starter engages. Its obvious in the manual, kind of a shielded cine side faces in towards center. Number 31 below.
I decided to leave my kicker in place. I will zip ty it so a buddy doesnt just grab it for a ride and kick the damn thing.
There is a sleeve in the kit to delete the kicker idler gear if you choose to delete that.
Side cover back on. Oil line back on. Brake pedal on.
Stand her up and eyeball the gears the starter engages from the left side of the bike. Align them as best you can. The starter should slide in pretty easily, if you cant just twist it in, check those teeth again.
The rest is wiring, and my kit was missing a few pieces so
Im stalled fir a week but thats the heavy lifting. Didn't lose any oil laying her over. Took about 1.5 hours as
I had to call about a few bits, like the ring in the fische. Lol.
I jumped the starter just to be sure its good and the Antigravity 4 cell spins it hard and fast. 14 oz.
Sorry for the picless description. Maybe someone else has a few to add.
