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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Not in the parts catalog. It's helpful but for parts and an overview of the parts. A service Manual will list any special tool needed for service and step through every task related to servicing and replacing every part on the bike, plus all torque values applicable for each step and full wiring schematics and specs. all with in depth photographs. The Manual is dated and does not even show the '13 drain plug in the sump. Of most importance would be the new head and it's valve adjust proceedure and tolerances and Keihin specific stuff from the airbox to the manifold. PLus all options for the ECU and proceedures to reflash using special tools. Rear arm servicing (so folks aern't wondering if there is a shoulder in there next to the bearings). What tools to use to pull the bearings, etc... Us home wrenching owners need this stuff. By having one, every owner can be fluent with the entire workings of their bike and confidently address issues if they desire to.
I just went over the parts link above and so no complete torque and service pages in teh parts pdf. IN any regard it's More than basic... It is a service bible for the bike. Not that I need much at any one time but it's a relevant tool for ownership and doing your own work. Especially subtle complexities so one doesn't butcher parts or incorrectly torque, etc... Also great for diagnosing electrics with a guide for us less than genius electricians. Should diagram and instruct step by step a complete engine teardown and reassembly with bearing clearances, etc... In the old days this was what your dealer service department had in loose leaf binders, like what Mitt Romney kept his lists of women in ;-)
Thanks very much for pointing out the TC head being same as for 2013 model. That now gives me the overview of the finger followers, etc., I had not seen, and how it is relative to the buckets so I can confidently tear it down/adjust.
Just a heads-up... The 2013 Workshop manuals are now listed on http://www.husqvarnafactory.nl/pdf/2013.htm
