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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Rad hole and trail fix

Motosportz

Motosportz

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Was on an amazing loop in PERFECT conditions. Ground saturated and tacky, sun out, mild temps... PERFECT. Got to the top of a big climb and water was spewing from the corner of my radiator!!! NOOOOO not today of all perfect days**************************************** Tried to patch it with water weld epoxy I had. No go. So as we were out a long ways with no clear way to get back EZ I did the next best thing. I took a socket and used it as a collar to shortcut the offending radiator. Unfortunately it was the side without the cap that was good so I had to improvise as blow off system. I whittled a stick out and crammed it in the crossover tube :D It all worked and got me 20 miles back to the rig and I still had a great day riding.

Sometime you gotta do what you gotta do.

nope that puddy did not hold or we did not get on on the spot.

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so...

Remove hose and use socket as collar

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hook hose to other hose eliminating right rad.

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take crossover hose off and jam a hunk of branch in there.

Worked fine. Bike ran great and did not get hot. Took it EZ on the hills.

Got the bike back to the truck 20 miles away, bike ran fine, enjoyed the rest of my day.

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Improvising skills of a legend! Brilliant answer to a sticky situation (see what i did there?) how did you get a hole in the rad? Thought rad guards were supposed to eliminate that issue?.
 
juicypips said:
IThought rad guards were supposed to eliminate that issue?.
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Bike is a 2002, no ideas what abuse it suffered before me. Had a crack in the corner of the tank you could see from the inside through the fill hole. Looks like simple fatigue. No rock or other damage and rad is straight. Been chasing this leak fior a few rides and finally popped open this ride and exposed itself.

BTW rad guards help a lot but there is no such thing as eliminating issues 100% IMHO. Buddy of mine stuck his foot through the back side of his rad on a ride.

juicypips said:
Improvising skills of a legend! Brilliant answer to a sticky situation
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thanks, there was no way I was going to miss this ride day and spend all day trying to figure how to get my bike out of the woods.
 
Good job Kelly :)
The kind of stuff that gets us home.
I once used water as front brake fluid when a rock undid my banjo bolt. We had 2stroke oil with us but knew that it would wreck the seals. I have NEVER internationaly put water in brakes before but it got me home through 30 km of hills.
I spent maybe an hour rebleeding it at home to be sure it all came out. :)

Come on guys. What other fixes have you all done??
 
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