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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Bolts holding front wheel axle

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LED

Husqvarna
A Class
Are these made of cheese ? Twice now I've rounded them trying to remove with a socket.:mad: Had to cut a slot in the head and use a impact driver. Hard to replace with another type as there's not much room for a tool. Anyone else have problems with these ?
 

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I have not. I have pulled my front wheel a few times already and no troubles. ARP may make an appropriate fastener for the job.
 
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Same here, never had any problems with them and I also took out the front wheel a number of times on both my wife's and my Terra. How hard do you torque them down? Do you use Loctite or anything else that might seize the bolts? Oxidation on the bolts?
 
They were torqued by the tyre shop last time. I don't use loctite for them. Might start using a bit of anti seize grease in future. I think I'll also replace them with Allen head pinch bolts instead if I find some suitable.
 
I had the opposite problem with mine. Found that two of my front axle pinch bolts were missing. I guess that the last person to take the wheel off had tightened them all once only and not gone back to retention the 1st bolt on each side after the 2nd had tightened.
 
Yup made of cheese, typical crappy BMW spec hardware.
I swap wheels often.
I replaced mine with stainless socket head cap crews from the local hardware store.

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I noticed yesterday working on the front wheel/forks of a Terra the crappy screws are more like the crappy one's used on the KTM's, very different to what BMW normally spec so they will be a Husky crappy bolts. File them where they belong in the rubbish

As for BMW crappy bolts, dont get me started but be warned and be careful with the bolts holding the disks onto the wheels front and rear they are horrible
 
FWIW they are a BMW part number.
So yes they are crappy BMW spec hardware.....just like the ones on the discs (I unfortunately know quite well about those too :thumbsdown: )
 
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