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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Sprocket Stuff...

Just used this tool for removing a very frozen countershaft sprocket. The tool works well. One needs to make sure it rests flat against the sprocket and the end that sits on the swingarm is seated on the slider or firmly on the swingarm (either way so all is aligned and wont shift in use). I needed to use my breaker bar and 1/2 of my aluminum floor jack handle, as an extension, to loosen the nut, after using a little Boeshield on the threads. Seems a bit more torque than spec required to remove (72.5 ft. lbs./spec) :eek:
 
Thanks Mike.... Used what was nearby tonight but maybe will buy some Kroil to have in the house.
 
Installed a new countershaft sprocket this morning. Putting things away and noted a minor issue. Considering the torque required to remove the countershaft nut it's not surprising.

The small spacers that screw into the plate and seat in the sprocket teeth got a little gouged, from the old or new on removal/installation. Obviously with 72.5 (install) to over 100 ft. lbs. (remove) of torque the spacers were the weakest link and good they are. Better to waste/wear the spacer than the teeth of a new sprocket. Good tool but I figure it needs spare spacers for regular installation and removal duties or a way to marry the plate and sprocket tight together while in use as any weld or imperfection of the swingarm surface may move one or 3 contact surfaces in use.

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How about "Mouse Milk" it along with many others is a good old penetrant. Used it extensively along with Kroil working on airplanes back in the day. The Border Patrol has a good one called "Free" I get a can anytime I can at the Fleet Garage. If the parts guy says "hey where you going with that" ? I tell em I need a can and show him the label of what I have in my hand and tell him its "FREE". I haven't had a complaint past that yet, it works good too.
 
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