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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Missing Rear Subframe bolt

Sorry I didn't see this sooner. The new bolt will eject itself as well if you rely only on the blind nut. Ditch it for a longer bolt and put a locknut on the back side of it, effectively double-nutting it. Blue loctite is your friend.
 
Those lower sub-frame bolts are particularly susceptible to loosening and falling out. It's happened to me twice. When I got home from my last long ride (around 3000 miles) I found the lower left completely missing. I was carrying a full load of gear, saddle bags, duffel, etc., and never noticed. Kind of amazing really. I believe that I had replaced that bolt on the trail without benefit if Loctite, but I'm not 100 percent sure if it was the left or right. Regardless, keep them tight and use Loctite!
 
Thanks for the advice guys, I ended up finding one in my spare bolts bin that was slightly short, till I took off the passenger peg, which I will never use on this bike anyway. And with that off I have enough sticking thru to double nut it on top of the blue loctite. I will probably do the other side the same soon.
 
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