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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
And don't be cheap on the oil , and change it a lot... Great motor, pulled away from a bunch of 2 stroke 500's on mine at Unadilla,
last year...
What oil did you use?
Took the swing off, what a mess. next up change all the bearings lol
I bought my 510 from the original owner when it was just over 1 year old and he had been using BelRay 4 stroke racing oil since it was new. I continued on with the BelRay until the 5 year mark when the motor was wore out and in serious need of an overhaul. I had George Erl at Up-Tite go thru the motor and he suggested I run Spectro petrolium/synthetic blend 4 stroke oil so I switched over to the Spectro and have been using it ever since with excellent results.What oil did you use?
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Small Husky world
Where can i find a oil filter sceen to buy, mine has windows.
I believe that is a Husky only part and is not available aftermarket. I have gotten mine from Up-Tite, but you could probably get one from where ever you get your Husky parts from. Also, if you find one, buy 2 of them and an extra gasket as well. I keep an extra screen and gasket in my stash of spares just in case I find an "open window" in my screen during an oil change...
not too bad! i like the itc rear suspension...super cushy! bike looks pretty solid and un-abused..too bad the kicker mount is cut off, they all seem to get that treatment. i bought an upgraded one from andy to weld on my 84 im restoring..I am so lucky some days
Got a email from a guy selling his wife's late father's bike.
They replied to a want add i have online for old left kicker Huskys in my area.
We spoke on the phone and he sent the 3 pics and then i said i could pay what you want for it.
He gets home from work June 2nd and i get it for a 1000 bucks.
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jimspac
I just fixed an ignition case with jb weld and sanded it smooth. i am wondering what you mean by dont break the glazeover