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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Rear Bearing Question

M

MotoRod

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hey,

Was wondering if anyone has encountered what appeared to be a spacer/spiral washer/metal band looking thing between the seal and bearing in the rear hub. I was replacing my rear tire the other day and when I took it off it popped out, it looked like it had been pinched on one side.

Any ideas? Does this piece serve a purpose or required for a better seal?

BTW, this was on an 08 TE450.

Thanks,
-Jarrett
 
Its not one of those circlip rings is it? I think that's what you call it. My KTM had one of those on one side of the hub to hold the bearing in (but not the other side...go figure). It went between the bearing and the spacer into a slight groove in the hub.
 
I don't think so. Its not a solid piece of metal. Closest thing i can relate it to is the retainer ring that holds on the fork dust seals, basically a flexible spring o-ring, i can't figure out if its supposed to be in there or not. Maybe just an extra part some guy threw on by mistake at the factory.
 
I think I figured it out. Its the metal retainer ring that goes inside the seal and holds the inner part of the seal against the rear axel, must have popped out for some reason and got bound up between the seal and the bearing.

I found this picture with a metal ring.

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