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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Rear disc loose?

M

millenium7

Husqvarna
AA Class
I noticed a rattling sound coming from the rear of the bike, quite a lot of it actually. I inspected the bike and found the rear disc itself is loose. I can grab it and wiggle it quite a bit, there's an alarming amount of play in it. However i'm not sure 1) how it could happen and 2) what the fix is? It's secured by what I describe as metal grommet's which the disc floats on. The grommets themselves are tightly affixed to the hub, but there appears to be no way to have the rear disc grab the grommets better?
 
On my last Husky the brake rattle was pretty bad - lot of miles. Someone suggested that I take the metal grommets (to use your phrase) off and rotate them to mate the unworn side with the rotor. I never bothered. I put lots of hard miles on it and it just rattled away happily. This adds "character" to the motorcycle. Instead of a floating disc, you can tell your riding buddies you have a super-free-floating disc; it's advanced technology that they wouldn't understand...

BTW - I kept the dirt wheels off that bike when I sold it and I will use them as-is on my current bike without reservation.

I think the official fix is to buy new "metal grommets" because that's the part that wears, causing looseness and rattle. Nice no-cost idea in the above-referenced link too. I might even try that if I get bored one day.
 
Silicone sounds like a better idea. I trimmed part of a zip tie and wedged it in one of the pucks, this would cause the disc to be ever so slightly offset but for the moment its stopped rattling. I checked for clearance issues and all is good so i'll probably leave it like that if it holds up. The rattle gave it a 'what the hell is wrong with you' character. Not really something i'm looking for...
 
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