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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Removing swing arm pivot bolt?

Triumph Street Triple '08 and KTM 250 EXC 2000.

It's a long story but bad luck seems to follow the Street Triple around since I got it. Fell off it, while replacing the stator cover something fell into the engine, stripped it down to retrieve said bit, radiator broke, exhaust broke, 2 weeks off the road sitting in my garage, then I fell off it again in the same place as last time which made the whole saga pointless and needless expense.

The 250 EXC seems to have a leaking crank seal and is making plumes of thick white smoke outta the exhaust.

Not sure why you are asking through as we have fallen out majorly on here, not sure if you are looking for an opportunity to have a dig at me through my miss fortune perhaps?

But if you are showing a genuine interest then you can read more about my Street Triple saga here
https://www.street-triple.co.uk/index.php/topic,31536.0.html
Since getting a full time job this january I don't have time for petty forum arguments anymore!
 
Flynn said:
I had a jack under the engine with the wheel on the ground.

That should be unloaded shouldn't it?

TBH I can't see the weight of the engine making it that hard anyway
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Yep- I think that's it. Sounds like you did- in effect/reality- have the weight of the bike on that point. I agree that it still shouldn't have made it quite that difficult, but it sure would make it a bear. Glad you got it out though. In the future jack/support across the two frame downtubes underneath.
 
I had a stuck swingarm bolt in my Yamaha a few years back.

Could not remove it with a hammer at all. A big hammer too.

I ended up tapping the center of the bolt with some threads and used a socket and a big (like 12mm threads) bolt and pulled it out with a wrench.

Came right out
 
Smoky Smoker with bd crank seal likely needs crank bearings as well.

Sucks about the Triple...
 
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