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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My Dilemma

Guoseph

Guoseph

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi Guys,

When I bought my SM630 I thought the only differences between the SM and the TE were the wheels, brakes, and suspension. I don't really plan to ride dirt and the TE's are too tall for me. Plus TE's were already sold out by the time I bought my SM.

But, as it turns out the SM630s have a different gear box (5th and 6th gear). I had bought the bike thinking I was getting a "wide ratio gear box". So what I REALLY want is an SM with a TE gear box. I haven't been able to confirm whether a 16T front will fit in front, and the lowest rear sprocket I've been able to find is 36T (-2 from stock). But changing final drive changes all the gears, so that's not ideally what I want either.

Keep in mind that I'm really just looking for the "Goldilocks" moment, where all the stars align, what would you do?

1.) Try to find a used TE and sell the SM?
2.) Put a TE gear box in the SM?
3.) Just change the final drive?

Obviously #3 is the cheapest, but I have a feeling it's going to nag at me for as long as I own the bike.
 
Guoseph said:
Hi Guys,

When I bought my SM630 I thought the only differences between the SM and the TE were the wheels, brakes, and suspension. I don't really plan to ride dirt and the TE's are too tall for me. Plus TE's were already sold out by the time I bought my SM.

But, as it turns out the SM630s have a different gear box (5th and 6th gear). I had bought the bike thinking I was getting a "wide ratio gear box". So what I REALLY want is an SM with a TE gear box. I haven't been able to confirm whether a 16T front will fit in front, and the lowest rear sprocket I've been able to find is 36T (-2 from stock). But changing final drive changes all the gears, so that's not ideally what I want either.

Keep in mind that I'm really just looking for the "Goldilocks" moment, where all the stars align, what would you do?

1.) Try to find a used TE and sell the SM?
2.) Put a TE gear box in the SM?
3.) Just change the final drive?

Obviously #3 is the cheapest, but I have a feeling it's going to nag at me for as long as I own the bike.
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I would just buy the fifth and sixth gear I plan to check the manual for part numbers and prices as soon as I get back home I am out of town for a couple weeks.
 
When it comes time to tear down and rebuild my motor in a few years, I plan to throw in a TE 5th and 6th. According to the parts diagram, there is a single dual-gear on the primary shaft and a 6th gear on the secondary shaft that are different, but it looks like 5th gear is the same, which seems strange. There's not a separate TE designated version of the secondary 5th gear...
 
RDTCU said:
When it comes time to tear down and rebuild my motor in a few years, I plan to throw in a TE 5th and 6th. According to the parts diagram, there is a single dual-gear on the primary shaft and a 6th gear on the secondary shaft that are different, but it looks like 5th gear is the same, which seems strange. There's not a separate TE designated version of the secondary 5th gear...
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The parts I was looking at was item numbers 1, 14, 7, 20, and 58. Item number 1 and 14 if I remember right were the primary and secondary shaft assemblies. Item 7 and 20 were the gears and item 58 is the two gear shaft assemblies. The most reasonable way is the separate gears I have torn many bikes down for transmission issues without having any other reasons so I am just going to bite the bullet and make the change in january.
 
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