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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

When buying a used Husky....

Vansmack

Husqvarna
AA Class
A friend of mine is interested in an 06 TE450. The current owner apparently says he bought it from a friend who crashed a lot so the original plastics have been swapped for the current black and red colors. Is there anything specific to a Husky that he should be looking for as far as problems besides the basic used bike buying tips? He already knows the basic stuff, does is start easily when cold, all nuts and bolts there and are not a mix of stuff from Home Depot and bailing wire, anything appear bent, smooth suspension, etc., basic stuff.

This is from the ad...

Street Legal, license plate, TE 450, new Renthal chain & sprockets, Pro Taper bars, BRP chain guide, Uptite skidplate, JD jet kit, Scotts steering damper mount, and many more....

The seller is asking $3500.

Thanks,

Chris

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That is a good bike. How many miles/hours?

The only crash damage that I can think of is you may want to check the subframe. If that is still unbent then the drops were quite likely minor in nature.
 
The odo is apparently broken, which seems to be a common problem? Pretty much the first thing I do with my bikes when I get them is install an hour meter, I do not think a lot of people do that. I'm sure that any guess as to the mileage or time on the engine is going to be a WAG.

Thanks for the response Dean.

Chris
 
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