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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husky Grease

danbartol

danbartol

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'll soon be picking up a 2010 Te510 and was wondering if Husky applied a bit more grease to it's bearings from the factory than the typical q-tip swab of vaseline the Japanese manufacureres do?

Thanks, Dan
 
Who knows how well the 2010 bikes will be greased now that BMW has fully integrated. My 2006 was lithium based and was greased 'ok', much better than some other brands. My understanding is that there are issues to consider like shipping a bike with grease dripping out of it, or weight of tested bikes... at least those were the latest theories on factory grease.

Regardless, I remove lithium based greased and use Bell Ray, it tends to stay where I put it and not leak out in warm weather.
 
Coffee;61702 said:
.My understanding is that there are issues to consider like shipping a bike with grease dripping out of it Regardless, I remove lithium based greased and use Bell Ray, it tends to stay where I put it and not leak out in warm weather.
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I can't figure out why...but this is what I've been told also.

Taking your new bike apart before it's initial ride has always been the norm. Never tell what you'll find. Little grease, no grease, pinch seal, etc.
 
My 09 TXC250 was greased better than any other new bike I had. That said it was still a under greased for me. I cleaned the white stuff out and lubed up the linkage with Bel-Ray waterproof grease with anti-seize mixed in.
 
Yep I think the level of factory greasing is reasonably OK. I would prefer to do say 500 ks (300 miles) then strip out and repack the factory stuff in the swing arm, linkage and head stem. I would also lift the cover of the wheel bearings, wipe and clean as much as possible and repack. Also put as much grease and you can on top of the bearing behind the outer seal, on the spacer and axels. When its time to replace bearings look at Seahorse's thread on repacking the bearings before you pop them in.
 
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