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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

All 2st Can a rear shock "sieze"?

If you have already cut the bent end off you can drill out the center of the bolt so that it will collapse a little and can be driven out. All above suggestions are good too it just depends what tools are available to you.
 
hey firecrotch. i have a sawzall you can borrow if you want. i work at the MS campus if you want to come by and grab it let me know. i was thinking you were over that way so if it would work for you then let me know.
 
That bolt will have to be driven out with a hammer & punch or pressed out. Make sure it's done by someone that knows what they're doing so that the lower shock yoke and/or the rocker doesn't get damaged. Take out the shock & rocker as an assembly & work on it from there.
Cutting of the section of exposed bolt won't really do anything except to maybe make it a little easier to press the rest out depending what equipment you have access to. More than likely it's a waste of time.
After this is over, you'll need a new dog bone, shock bolt & nut, lower shock bushing & bearing and probably new seals/spacers while you're at it. It's also possible that the portion of the rocker that holds the lower shock bearing may be ovaled, or twisted - let's hope not.
 
Yeah, my brother the uber mechanic and former pro mx'er lectered me about just the same.
Slowpoke said:
That bolt will have to be driven out with a hammer & punch or pressed out. Make sure it's done by someone that knows what they're doing so that the lower shock yoke and/or the rocker doesn't get damaged. Take out the shock & rocker as an assembly & work on it from there.
Cutting of the section of exposed bolt won't really do anything except to maybe make it a little easier to press the rest out depending what equipment you have access to. More than likely it's a waste of time.
After this is over, you'll need a new dog bone, shock bolt & nut, lower shock bushing & bearing and probably new seals/spacers while you're at it. It's also possible that the portion of the rocker that holds the lower shock bearing may be ovaled, or twisted - let's hope not.
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