• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

A question on engine removal

EricV

EricV

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi gang. I've never pulled the engine on a TE...currently doing this to the 630.

In reading the shop manual the rear swingarm pivot bolt- that goes all the way through, side to side- functions as the rear engine mount. So you take off the 22mm nut and tap the bolt out to free up the engine. May seem like a dumb question, but does the swingarm just "fall off" then...so should I be pulling the shock, linkage, etc.?

I hope not. Yes, I know that I probably should disassemble the rear end to inspect//grease (and replace any worn bearings) but, to be honest, the engine issue is about all I'm equipped to deal with right now (in and around other time constraints, as well as by experience/skill.) For now I am more curious as to what happens when I tap this rear bolt out...and even more curious about how getting it all back together shakes out. :)

Thanks!
 
I removed the engine from my 610 a couple of years ago; obviously, the bike was on a motocross stand and the rear wheel was raised. I remember that, when I removed the pivot bolt, the swingarm just moved a bit. IIRC, I put something under the rear wheel and I suggest that you do the same.
Remember that the rocking lever will keep the swingarm linked to the frame (this is an Husky but not mine):
IMG_5472.jpg

so nothing will fall on the floor.
 
You can keep all the linkages assembled if you want, just do as Theo suggests and support the rear wheel and that will stop the swing arm from doing anything to wild when you remove the engine/swing arm mounting bolt. I would take the chance to replace/regrease bearings if you can find the time as this a great opportunity since you will have lots of room to work and get at things whilst the engine is out, but its up to you.
 
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