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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Radiator replacement

sussurf said:
Pete I won't be throwing much away from this bike, who knows what we'll be able to get as spares in the future.
So sorry mate, I'll be keeping it for the side tanks, thermostat & brackets, just in case.....
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No sweat, all good.
Even better if something comes off it.:thumbsup:
 
I'll have to keep an eye on this thread. The other week I went to fit my radguard and discovered BOTH top mounting tabs broken off from the radiator. I've got no idea what caused it, it had just had it's 10k service only a couple of hundred ks before, hasn't been crashed. The radiator was sitting about 4mm away from the tabs, so the only thing I can think of is that the mounts didn't line up with the frame mounted bracket and it was forced to fit at the factory, then broke through continued stress.

I've run it past the dealer as a warranty issue, but won't hold my breath. The good news is that the radguard hooks under the radiator, then uses the top mount holes to bolt up, so it actually supports the radiator quite nicely. If factory won't cover it, I'm probably going to leave it go and see if it lasts, I don't see the point in fitting another radiator if it does the same thing.
 
Actually it wouldn't be that difficult to make some new tabs. Find a chunk of sheet metal and use tin snips. After cutting and bending remember to use direct pressure to control bleeding. Top mounts are riveted in place and make a good templet.
 
Stuart T said:
I'll have to keep an eye on this thread. The other week I went to fit my radguard and discovered BOTH top mounting tabs broken off from the radiator. I've got no idea what caused it, it had just had it's 10k service only a couple of hundred ks before, hasn't been crashed. The radiator was sitting about 4mm away from the tabs, so the only thing I can think of is that the mounts didn't line up with the frame mounted bracket and it was forced to fit at the factory, then broke through continued stress.

I've run it past the dealer as a warranty issue, but won't hold my breath. The good news is that the radguard hooks under the radiator, then uses the top mount holes to bolt up, so it actually supports the radiator quite nicely. If factory won't cover it, I'm probably going to leave it go and see if it lasts, I don't see the point in fitting another radiator if it does the same thing.
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I'd be inclined to believe that happened at the scheduled service. Especially if you had the valves adjusted.
 
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