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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

How would you get THIS off?

KXcam22 said:
Ruffus idea wont work using ice, but you could do similar with JB weld. Add fiberglass strands to the JB is give it super strength.
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Don't quite understand the JB weld comparison, the ice is to keep the seized aluminum cap cold while the tube is heated.
 
Heat the outsize tube and ice cube the inside nut. Repeat with wd 40 or some other penetrating oil between repeated applications.the metals expanding.and contracting will sometimes break the chemical bond that happens between dissimilar metals Have some patients as this kind of situation can get you too pumped for the task at hand.
 
No fancy stuff I have removed 100+ caps that look just like that ( and put most of them back on because customers can be cheap lol) slide it up a few inches in the trip trees and use a pipe wrench no heat or freezing no fancy stuff only grab the cap not the the tube it will come off we wouldn't lie to ya lol
 
bdl507 said:
No fancy stuff I have removed 100+ caps that look just like that ( and put most of them back on because customers can be cheap lol) slide it up a few inches in the trip trees and use a pipe wrench no heat or freezing no fancy stuff only grab the cap not the the tube it will come off we wouldn't lie to ya lol
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Yep. Been riding since I was in the 6th grade and am now 48 and have had top pipe wrench more than one cap off in my life. Pipe wrenches have gnarly teeth and get tighter as you apply pressure which make them perfect for this application. "Brute force and ignorance" as my buddy Scott says.
 
Sorry Ruffus I misunderstood what you said. I thought you were intending on using the ice to grab the damaged end as a custom formed socket. Good idea but I thought the JB weld would be stronger. Cam.
 
Motosportz said:
Yep. Been riding since I was in the 6th grade and am now 48 and have had top pipe wrench more than one cap off in my life. Pipe wrenches have gnarly teeth and get tighter as you apply pressure which make them perfect for this application. "Brute force and ignorance" as my buddy Scott says.
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I definately would try a monkey wrench first, however, my concern would be the aluminium galling inside the internal thread. It would be a PITA to remove torn up bits of ally stuck in the thread. If it felt like it was tearing the ally thread, I'd stop and cut: hack saw, dremel, grinder etc.

Or first place would be...

Tinken said:
Lathe and end mill.
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UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE****************************************!!

I got the little F*$%# off. THANKS FOR ALL THE INPUT GUYS! What a great forum this is. As I am new to this, I'm sure I'll have more questions and run into more problems....but as I get better at working on the bike....I hope to help other greenhorns.

This is what I did to get it off:

1. Loosened top tripple tree bolts.

2. Used hack saw/dremel to cut around existing bolt head all the way down to the steel stanchion tube. This exposed more surface area for a socket to grab.

3.) purchased a nice set of air tools and used an impact driver with 6 point socket. NO HEAT WAS USED.

4.) purchased new cap.

THANKS AGAIN GUYS!!!
 
Here is the bolt after the modification and removal! THANKS EVERYONE!

CAPfinal.jpg
 
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