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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Rear brake seized - TE 630

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Tarsky

Husqvarna
B Class
I mentioned in a previous post, that I'm a complete newb when it comes to dual sport/dirt bike, so hopefully this isn't a dumb question...

Yesterday, I took my bike on a really cool ride through the woods, up a dry creek bed, over some logs and boulders and through deep mud holes...WOW, so much fun!

On the way back, I had a 15 miles of twisty roads to ride to get home. What a great trip.

Anyway...in the last few miles, my noticed that there was little to no travel in the rear brake pedal. Shortly after that, I could feel the bike dragging between gear changes. When I pulled over, I realized that the rear brake was darned near completely seized up. As total luck would have it, exactly where I pulled over, a group of dual sport riders came up to me and started talking. One of them was a mechanic. He took a look, grabbed a wrench and turned the bleed valve nut. The brake fluid was literally boiling! After letting the pressure off, the brakes "let go" and I was able to ride home.

So now the question...is this pretty typical when riding in mud and dirt? Does this sound like something I should have checked out by the dealer? I'm trying to determine if this is a mechanical failure that needs attention or just something that happens when you get a lot of mud in the brakes.

Thanks
 
That can happen if the master cylinder was overfilled: No room for expansion as the brake fluid heats up.. (happened to me on a ktm 300)
Also if the brake pedal is set such that you are always dragging the brake. That will obviously cause overheating.
 
mjskier said:
That can happen if the master cylinder was overfilled: No room for expansion as the brake fluid heats up.. (happened to me on a ktm 300)
Also if the brake pedal is set such that you are always dragging the brake. That will obviously cause overheating.
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Interesting. I wouldn't have thought of the overfilling situation. Thanks...I'll check that out right away.
 
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