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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Tail bracket removal TE 310...

Johnrg

Johnrg

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Well... 600 miles later decided to remove the black tail/fender. It just had too much slop. Relocated the turn signals using extra brackets that came with the bike. I cut an old number plate the size of the tag for a backing plate and bolted that to the white fender tab and bolted plate to the backer after a slight bend to conform to the tail piece. A strip of velcro down the center makes a tight rattle free assembly. Clean and solid.

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I used a piece of number plate plastic to make a backing. Also made hangers to allow turn signals to tuck away. No broken lights in three years.

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I remember seing your post and that's a good option. Ordered some smaller signals but found these actually fit over the muffler so will see how this all holds togther. I do have a few number plates to use and I figure the right side is what may get broken first.
 
dalecarlsbad said:
Another option: SICASS Racing blinkers
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Nice job with your arrangement and I looked at trimming more to keep the black bracket..... I found after 600 miles, mostly dirt, that the black bracket simply sleeved onto the tail and only secured way up front would move/vibrate so much that it started to dig into the plastic adjacent to the tail light as shown. In time it would simply fatigue and disintegrate in the conditions I ride. I think, when removed, the black plastic bracket needs some rubber shims or silicone between to the tail area and bracket and also inside the tail itself where it sleeves over the white tail stub to make it less prone to vibration/shake and self destruction. Decided it was a battle I ultimately would lose and so at least preserved all stock components in case a future buyer wants them, etc... The nice thing is signals are more solidly mounted and left side is inside the pipe, so protected. Even right side is close in. A no cost mod.

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