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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

steering 12-0 clock detent

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dieselpower

Husqvarna
my 2011 sm 630 has a bad notch in the steering range at the strait ahead position,12-0 clock,any of you guys have this problem,it's only got 2500 miles on it! seems the only thing it could be is bad steering head bearings.
 
That would seem to be the case. Maybe they were a bit undergreased from the factory. If you live in a damp environment or near the ocean, things can get nasty in a hurry. If the bearings were a tiny bit loose, that could accelerate wear also. Replace the bearings, use plenty of waterproof grease, and make sure that the bearings are tightened perfectly. Then recheck them from time to time. I like to set the bearings tight enough so the the front end will slowly and smoothly glide all the way to the fork stop when pushed off center with the wheel raised up off the ground.
 
Stroker Ace said:
+1 But they could be too tight as well.....
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My bearings were set too tight when I brought my brand new 07 TE450 home. The front wheel wandered and hunted around on pavement and was hard to hold a line on the dirt. I put the bike right up on a stand and found that the front end didn't want to glide off center, and practically didn't want to move on its own at all. A quick loosening and check brought it all back to proper handling though.
 
+1 again..... Steering head service and adjustment get neglected way too often, after a few front tire changes, it's good to give them a check while you're at it.........
 
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