• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 How to remove swing arm?

Ok....so after long thought....and after fixing my stuck chain adjuster bolts, I have decided to leave the swing arm axle in for now. I ended up soaking the inside of the swing arm with PB Blaster for a week. I used a grab it socket by Irwin and an impact air driver and got the right hand side bolt out. The left bolt didn't have enough thread for the grab it socket to bite, so I ended up drilling out the bolt and using a 8mm tap to resurface the threads on the aluminum swing arm. I just wanna ride the bike for now....maybe someday I'll try and tackle the stuck swing arm axle, but for now everything works ok.
 
kroil it. once or twice a week. ride for spell.

then, loosen nut, turn back in til it hits, then a half turn out, drift with a dowel so you dont kill the pivot bolt and nut, did it budge so the nut hits the frame lug now? if yes yer on yer way. work it back n forth, side to side to bust the mung ring offa it blasting it with kroil and air and paint thinner. beating it in one only direction just wedges it in there tighter in some cases.

didnt go? sooner or later it'll work loose with kroil seeping in. baby steps.

seen one guy loosen the nut some and ride. it came loose half way through a trail ride...luckily someone came by in a jeep with a socket set. so dont do that! lol.
 
Some play in the linkage ....but it feels more like its coming from the other linkage parts...not the swing arm axle/bushings
 
if you move the arm up and down there will be slop on almost all link type suspensions. lightly "pinch" the top and bottom shock pivots overlapping your fingers tips on a non-moving part and have a helper if need be slowly move the arm up to isolate the sources. if its substantial look to the shock clevis and eye pivots those go first. rarely do the links go bad if lubed and have good quality hardness bolts. you'll replace the spherical rod end type bearings 10-1 over the links with the needles in them.
 
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