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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Öhlin TTX44 shock? Any good

I think mine was shortened 20-30mm at the lower mount. It would need to retain the function of the lower adjuster. Mine was done by Fast Bike Industries. I heard he doesn't do this mod anymore but might be worth a call to ask what he did. http://www.fastbikeindustries.com

Not a great pic, but you can see that it's much shorter than your stock one.


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Yeah well I spent ten mins getting access to the old one then 20 getting öhlins in, tbh think I will be either cutting the body and lower mount down as it's 2,1/2 longer.
Mounted it all up and bounced on it, deffo smooth but was under alot pressure standing still.

Yeah man first Dnf in 4-5 motos.. bit crap but got non suppressed plug cap on now richens up needle to 50mm and opened up pj I will see if she blubbers under load.
 
I'm in no doubt this will go on the husky permanently, just will have to hack a little off of it.IMG_20160720_185029052.jpg

As you can see clearance on exhaust, the air box is clear and so is the air boot.
 
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Right so the shaft I will get machined on the bottom removing 20 mm, I'm going to leave the knuckle alone as you can't actually lower it as that would require cutting the seat and the thread deeper this isn't possible due to the rebound adjustment being right there.
I could take the upper down but I think that may weaken it slightly as that locates/supports the shaft a little more. IMG_20160722_093537375.jpg
Ok so any one know how to remove this collar? I've blowtorched it to break down loc-tite but it's on there, think I'm going to have to use a ratchet strap and fashion an undooer... I'm splitting the threaded tube from the shock so I can turn that down a further 20 mm that will get me to the correct size eye to eye.
May have to send to a shop to get it stripped then send it back for rebuild..

I can't blooming wait****************************************!
 
Yeah I was wanting to cut it down that end any way. Will apply more heat today and see if I get a win.
One things for sure I'm glad I stripped it as there were a few tiny bits of what looks like sand in there.

Either way applying unscrewing pressure to the top should unscrew either end.
Was wanting to get both out as the side walls are hollow from what I've seen so don't want any swarf stuck in there.
 
Right so here we go progress so far I made a clamp out of MDF glued 3 squares together and hole saws out a hole just smaller than the shock tube.
Cut it in half and hay presto a shock tube clamp.
So heat up the cap that is beautiful I may add and clamp in the vice and unscrew well on the third attempt I got it hot enough to break down the thread lock.

So same for the top of shock tube. IMG_20160802_151601655.jpg
Now the tube the shaft and rebound bar is with the hobbits Downstairs waiting for 25mm to be removed from each of them.
De-burr and thorough clean. Reassemble... it's close.. just hope he don't junk my unit :s
 
Cheers guys, well it will be going on my bike any way will see if it's right or not.
The only issue I can see being messed up is the rebound adjuster as that's got to be cut exactly the same as the shaft. But if it's a thou out either way I imagine I'm going to loose a top or lower click.
Will have to make sure I've the full compliment upon reassembly.

What you think to clean it?
Hot soapy water, brake cleaner,carb cleaner?
Don't want to use water but if I dry it with airline then can't be doing any harm...
 
Well after an extended holiday in the isle of my birth I'm back at work now so the freshly machined parts are looking good. 1471258315033-1022512107.jpg
So time too get my micro files out and de burr the 8 oblong holes around the shock tube.. then re assemble and send of for re gas and oil. Whoop whoop getting close now

The inner shaft for rebound adjuster was to small to fit in his chuck so if your wandering how I cut that think adjustable brake line cutter.
 
IMG_20160816_125725995.jpg IMG_20160816_125729730.jpg IMG_20160816_130025062_HDR.jpg IMG_20160816_135335401.jpg all looking very good so far, have cleaned out everything with electrical cleaner and compressed air, red greased where metal meets rubber and loc tite parts that shouldn't unscrew.
 
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