• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
    WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

250-500cc $&@#¥ bolt snapping off

firecrotch

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Dont ask how but my bolt that holds the gas tank sheeed right off this last ride on my wr300. I just tried a left turning drill bit to back the remnants of the bolt out but no joy. I guess I need to re-tap it now? Advice/dos and donts are appreciated.
 
A centering bit helps make sure things are centered up followed by a good quality drill bit of the right size then tap using some oil and taking your time. The reversing bit you used may have already centered things up for you. Not sure where the bolt is and how hard or easy it is to get to but usng quality bits/taps and taking your time is the key. Good luck.
 
I have had that same bolt break as well. And I just realized my replacement has a slight bend to it now too. I will change it out and keep an eye on them from now on. I was lucky that my tank bolt broke just above the frame, so I was able to grab it with ViseGrips.
 
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