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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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Rather than tap into the head stock with the attendant contamination potential, I think I'd rather just cut off the dip stick from the threaded cap and use a separate "stick" to check the level. In the meantime, I've found (suggested by someone else) that inserting the dip stick from the left side of the bike and reaching over the tank seems to work better than trying to do it from the left side.
 
The bung would go on the right side of the at the appropriate location. I would flush the tank when I was finished. It would just require a quick glance when the oil was hot to check the level.
 
nwrider1 said:
In the meantime, I've found (suggested by someone else) that inserting the dip stick from the left side of the bike and reaching over the tank seems to work better than trying to do it from the left side.
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My method is to insert the dip stick while aiming low (for the oil, not the metal brack inside the tank, and then instead of threading the cap on, I press it down and unscrew it. As soon as the splines are aligned properly, when the leading edge of the thread on the cap runs off the leading edge of the tank thread, the cap will slip down into place with the threads properly aligned and you can easily tighten it without worrying about crossing the threads.
 
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