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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Making a bracket to mount new rad. fan..and then guards.

bower100

bower100

Husqvarna
AA Class
Well since I have to make a bracket to mount the cooling fan I'm adding to my 07 te450, I'm contemplating just incorporating it into a complete homemade radiator guard. Does anybody have pictures of their fan and how it was mounted from Husky? And I was wondering if aftermarket rad guards have issues fitting a TE equipped with a fan. (some bikes came with a fans...some didn't?)

What I envision would be ultra strong but require welding attachment points , not use the radiator mounts.

dave
 
bower100;26229 said:
Well since I have to make a bracket to mount the cooling fan I'm adding to my 07 te450...
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I rode a 2007 TE510 a couple of days ago and it had a 610 OEM fan and bracket installed, did you consider looking into that?
 
i combined guard & brace - very strong, drilled & tapped an M4 thread & bolted the fan on, sweet

Force guards come with a bracket good to go


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What brand rad guard is that in your photo's? ( Not the Force you mentioned?)

It's nice for store bought ones that you get total protection, as should be, but to be honest for homemade ones I believe all that's not needed.

Th top half of the rads are well tucked in. It's the lower tank and lower half of tubes/fins that's vulnerable to the big hit when you go down.

I less concerned with the sheet of metal in front of the tubes/fins...anything there is fine...expanded metal, whatever.

I'm looking at it now 'cause I want the fan on there soon.

Dave
 
bower100;26390 said:
What brand rad guard is that in your photo's? ( Not the Force you mentioned?)

It's nice for store bought ones that you get total protection, as should be, but to be honest for homemade ones I believe all that's not needed.

Th top half of the rads are well tucked in. It's the lower tank and lower half of tubes/fins that's vulnerable to the big hit when you go down.

I less concerned with the sheet of metal in front of the tubes/fins...anything there is fine...expanded metal, whatever.

I'm looking at it now 'cause I want the fan on there soon.

Dave
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they`re an 07 Force Guard & (can`t remeber the name of the brace)
it`s the armoured tank of radiator protection :p

They are sensational, i had some pretty big hits & they just don`t budge. You can "whack" it as hard as you like with your hand & they don`t move back or forward, we`re in hilly Hot country in North Queensland Australia, and no o`heating.
 
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