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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Chain rub!

HSMRDave

HSMRDave

Husqvarna
B Class
After buying a new set of wheels recently and going up from a 4.25" rear to a 5", the new tyre being a 160 was very close to the chain.
My solution was to drill and tap one of the existing chain guard fixing holes, then attach two 32mm chain rollers to the swing arm using an M8 bolt..... should solve the problem nicely
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That's a good idea. Do you get any chain rub on the frame inner? - opp/forward the rollers you've fitted.
 
How are you having issues with 5"? I thought the huskies wouldnt rub til a 5.5" was put on. That seems to be the case from what I have run into.. If you are running a wider tire, like Michelin That might be it. Michelins are the widest of most tires.. Their 160 is wider than a dunlop 165
 
J.R. said:
How are you having issues with 5"? I thought the huskies wouldnt rub til a 5.5" was put on. That seems to be the case from what I have run into.. If you are running a wider tire, like Michelin That might be it. Michelins are the widest of most tires.. Their 160 is wider than a dunlop 165
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I'm on the OE 4.25 rim, 150 section tyre. Not had an issue with any tyre/chain rub so I might investigate the 160 as it gives a few more fitment options here. Maybe I was running too slack a chain last year, but the frame has def got the paint rubbed off by the chain. I've seena few other reports the same
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Slightly different response here. In terms of inner frame rub, I have reversed the chain link so that the circlip faces inwards (towards the wheel). This has dramatically reduced chain rub on the frame
 
Thanks for input. I'm running a non O ring chain currently with the clip on frame side. I'll flip it to the tyre side and check my tension a bit more regularly and see what gives in a month or two - when it warms up and stops bloody raining! Cheers guys
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moto66 said:
That's a good idea. Do you get any chain rub on the frame inner? - opp/forward the rollers you've fitted.
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Yes there has always been a certain amount of chain rub on the inside of the frame, this is something I may try to resolve at some point.

J.R. said:
How are you having issues with 5"? I thought the huskies wouldnt rub til a 5.5" was put on. That seems to be the case from what I have run into.. If you are running a wider tire, like Michelin That might be it. Michelins are the widest of most tires.. Their 160 is wider than a dunlop 165
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I did have an issue with the first tyre I bought, which was a 160 Dunlop Qualifier. Bloody thing was huge, measuring closer to 170mm across its widest point. This meant that it fouled the chain really badly, and the only way to use it would be either to shave the tyre or play around with the wheel offset, neither of which I wanted to do.
exit90a said:
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/chain-tire-rub-solution.9656/#post-97319
I did a similar set up last year, helps a lot.:thumbsup:
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Fair play, I thought someone might have done it before, I guess the way you did it does away with the need to drill/tap the swingarm, which is good for people without the tools to do such a job
 
moto66 said:
I'm on the OE 4.25 rim, 150 section tyre. Not had an issue with any tyre/chain rub so I might investigate the 160 as it gives a few more fitment options here. Maybe I was running too slack a chain last year, but the frame has def got the paint rubbed off by the chain. I've seena few other reports the same :confused:
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You wont want to get a 160 unless you buy a 5" wide rim. The tire width you can buy is decided by the width of your rim. If you are keeping your stock 4.25 rear, stick with the 150/155 stuff..

HSMRDave said:
Yes there has always been a certain amount of chain rub on the inside of the frame, this is something I may try to resolve at some point.



I did have an issue with the first tyre I bought, which was a 160 Dunlop Qualifier. Bloody thing was huge, measuring closer to 170mm across its widest point. This meant that it fouled the chain really badly, and the only way to use it would be either to shave the tyre or play around with the wheel offset, neither of which I wanted to do.


Fair play, I thought someone might have done it before, I guess the way you did it does away with the need to drill/tap the swingarm, which is good for people without the tools to do such a job
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Hey just to clarify, I was referring to slicks with my previous comment. Im not sure about DOT stuff..

Most the time Im not really bothered by chain rub tho :D
 
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