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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Selling my SMS630

Am thinking of ridding myself of mine too. `Twas ok, but not one of my most loved bikes (I usually hold on to them till the bitter end .... but not this one)
 
I actually would rather have a 630, but the insurance spikes because it's over 600cc

Been considering getting a 630 cylinder/piston and cylinder head, but it's so expensive for just a little more HP and reliability.
 
What is more reliable about the 630 head? The main difference that I know of is shim over bucket, so adjusting the valve clearance is more difficult.
 
Kyle Tarry said:
What is more reliable about the 630 head? The main difference that I know of is shim over bucket, so adjusting the valve clearance is more difficult.
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Somewhat more difficult, but the followers slide out of the way so you can change shims w/o pulling cams. Shims can't accidentally (quickly) come out of adjustment. But now you have to have a shim kit...


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EricV said:
Just curious guys- why the loss of love for the 630's?
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Just too heavy and cumbersome. I need a sumo with not more than a 400cc lump that´s a lot lighter and more nimble. Nothing wrong with the 630. `Tis reliable and sturdy enough for every day usage .... even fairly fast on the motorway, but sadly, I´ve never taken to it. So it´s off to the knacker´s yard in payment for something or other.
 
^^ Agreed. The hardest part for me was getting the valve cover off/on the top end because the thermostat for the cooling system is in the way.

If you aren't riding something I can see selling it. For me though, I can not see myself getting rid of my mighty TE 630. It is the best DS bike I have ever had. If I had to choose only one bike, the TE 630 would be it. :cheers:
 
Kyle Tarry said:
What is more reliable about the 630 head? The main difference that I know of is shim over bucket, so adjusting the valve clearance is more difficult.
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Nothing about the head being more reliable.

It's the cam chain issue on the 610... the 630 has a different setup, and no issue with the cam chain as far as I've read into it.
 
Kyle Tarry said:
What
is more reliable about the 630 head? The main difference that I know of is shim over bucket, so adjusting the valve clearance is more difficult.
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Isn't the 610 a single overhead cam where the 630 went to a dual overhead cam set up with revised cam chain tensioner and chain.
 
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