• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

449/511 rear suspension warning

2000Ks on my 2012 449 and no problems, wash and grease rear shock etc after every ride and axles every 2nd/3rd ride depending on were I ride.
I USE MARINE GREASE WITH GRAFFIT IN IT. IT'S BLUE WITH LITTLE GREY PARTICLES IN IT.
and whether this has made a difference i dont know but no issues.{ i've had all the suspension set up for my weight.}
oil change as well every 300km max even less if the bike has worked hard.
 
Just checked my lower bearing and it is shot, @ 800 miles. Does the new "Husky" Bearing come with the bushing? The parts catalog does not show it separate.
 
Even with extreme grease mine needed reagreasing recently. With the best grease on earth, and it still got worked dry...I think maybe the bearings are just low quality....or under too much abuse.
 
It is definitely an area that needs regular attention. Is say anyone with a 449 / 511 needs to check and lube this on a monthly basis. If you have not checked yours it is probably bad.
 
2012 TE 511 with 2100 km . Removed lower shock mount and bearing dry and rusty. Caught just in time as centre bushing just requires a polish on the lathe. Thanks to the posters for the warning ! If the seals had those springs to clamp around the bushing, I am sure less water would be allowed in, and wash the grease away. Love how easy the rear shock is to remove . Unbolt and pull up and out .Anyone know the bearing number for the lower shock mount ? image.jpg image.jpg
 
machinehead said:
2012 TE 511 with 2100 km . Removed lower shock mount and bearing dry and rusty. Caught just in time as centre bushing just requires a polish on the lathe. Thanks to the posters for the warning ! If the seals had those springs to clamp around the bushing, I am sure less water would be allowed in, and wash the grease away. Love how easy the rear shock is to remove . Unbolt and pull up and out .Anyone know the bearing number for the lower shock mount ? View attachment 41909 View attachment 41910
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Lower shock bearing, non-gen is HK2016-B, I don't have the seal numbers at hand sorry....

Any good bearing shop, 1/2 the price of original
 
12 months and 1800km on my 449 and decided it was time to sort out the stalling/starting issues, get the suspension properly sorted (clicker adjustment not cutting it for me) and gererally give the bike a bit of maintenance love.

Front wheel off, fork out, nice easy job. Problem, nut on top of triple clamp undid by hand. Off with top triple clamp and the bearing nut undid by hand! Surprised me as I had not felt any headstem knock. Water in top bearing and not much grease. Bearing cleaned up fine, will grease and re install. Bottom light on grease but all good.

Shock came out nice and easy. Dropped forks and shocks at local suspension shop for valve work. Once there I realised the condition of the lower shock bearing. Completely shot, rusted and dry.

Decided that all swing arm bearings and linkages needed more than just a cursory squirt of grease from the gun. So far, All looking good, luckily! Does anyone know how to get the linkage from the frame to the horizontal linkage?


I have the bolt out, and was expecting it would just pull out. I guess it has some bushes in it that need to come out first? Feels rough moving the linkage by hand so I'm pretty keen to remove/inspect.

Any help would be appreciated.image.jpg
 
So I got the bottom linkage out. Apparently brute force and a mallet is all that's required. Looks like the bushes inside the linkage are about half a mm to long. Anyhow, if the linkage came out that way, must be able to go back in.
Took a while but after using my regular theory of force (if it doesn't fit get a bigger hammer) managed to get said linkage back into frame. Lining up a hole for the bolt is proving difficult though.

Now have the suspension back from local shop (krooztune) with 0.48 fork springs (original measured at .46) original shock spring, valves front and rear and 30mm lower both ends + new lower shock bearing.

Checked all suspension and swing arm bearings, all good, gave them some extra grease for good measure. Cleaned and greased headstem bearings.

Can't wait to ride it now and see how different the ride is..... Unfortunately, that won't be for another 2 weeks
 
Dangermouse449 said:
On a positive note with the rear shock on these bikes, I love how easy it is to remove from the frame.:thumbsup:
An awful lot of thought has gone into how to get it out, service/replace it & get it back in there with a minimum of fuss/time loss.:applause:
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Note, after I put a heavier race tech spring on my shock, I have to remove the rear wheel to fit the shock up into the frame vertically. It's just a tad too wide to fit it back through the side of the frame in the normal fashion. :(
 
Local suspension tuner near me sells Eibach springs, wonder how they compare for diameter?
They are good quality springs.
 
Saw this thread a while back and finally had a look at my lower shock bearing at 1600 miles, still good. Slathered some heavy grease in there, good to go. I live in a dry area and don't wash my bike.
 
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