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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE610 - Vibration!?

I'm bumping this old thread because I just had the same issue, on my 2000 SMS and sheared the key on the crankshaft. Luckily I was close to a friend's garage and I managed to open the RH side to find the culprit. Thing is, the tab under the nut was properly bent and the nut SEEMED to be alright, although it barely had any torque at all.

EVERYONE check the torque on that nut even if it looks alright, becuas mine wasn't. I finally realized that the clocking noise I heard at idle wasn't the clutch but the CB gear slamming on the woodruff key...
 
I fixed the broken key, the bike runs much better and quieter. The strange thing is thst the gear shifting gas become a bit sitffer than it used to be, and the bike seems to drag the clutch when still in 1st. I just replaced the oil, so that's out of the equation.

It's not that dramatic but enough for me to notice it. Any ideas?
 
The clutch hub nut was slightly loose (probably messer up during reassembly. torqued it properly and added some threadlock. Gear shifts are smooth again
 
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