• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 suspension maintenance on a 2006 TE250

Coffee

Coffee

CH Owner
Staff member
There is a thread in the Tech Ref area about this, here is a link for completeness:
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/rear-suspension-maintenance-on-a-2006-te250.1422/#post-25794


Remove brake from swing arm, note one is a sheet metal screw and another is a bolt

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Support brake

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Remove brake pedal

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Remove cover, kickstand, and roller from left side

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Pic says it all

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Glad I did the suspension that bolt was a bit dry

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All clean, bolt on left needs washer (not shown).

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There is a bushing with shoulder in swing arm, then washer, then nut all under the plastic covers

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These grease fittings are nice but not complete - I would not rely on the grease fittings greasing everything.
Also the file "2006-DOHC-Husky-parts.pdf" is different than what this TE250 had. Here is a nice feature:

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How were the swingarm pivot bearings when you checked them? Just wondering how soon I'll have to look at mine on my '07.
You don't trust the grease fittings to lube the linkage? I usually pump a lot of grease in mine to make sure it's coming out of all the bearing joints. Then I pump some more to purge out the old stuff with new. It's messy but nothing some rags can't handle.
 
BlueHusky144;22262 said:
Wash bike....:excuseme:
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420skirider;24294 said:
How were the swingarm pivot bearings when you checked them? Just wondering how soon I'll have to look at mine on my '07.
You don't trust the grease fittings to lube the linkage? I usually pump a lot of grease in mine to make sure it's coming out of all the bearing joints. Then I pump some more to purge out the old stuff with new. It's messy but nothing some rags can't handle.
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The swingarm was well greased as I recall.

Grease fittings work great! Except one of the bearings (as shown in pic, the one that goes to the shock) does not seem to have a passage hole on this bike so that one is not greased. In addition, while 2 of the bearings are greased the part between the bolt and bushing is not. Bolt has a bushing around it, the the bearing goes around the bushing, hence the bolt had no grease and could easily seize the bushing to the bolt as mine was showing signs of surface rust even though I ride in a dry environment.
 
Thanks for that write up :thumbsup:

What kind of grease do y'alls prefer for the zerk fittings?
I've always used the Bel Ray waterproof blue crap, but I dont think they make cartridges to fit my grease gun.

Never had a bike with zerk fittings. What a concept. Too bad the Japanese haven't caught on to it :banghead:
 
I use a good quality automotive bearing grease in a cartridge. One that is petroleum or synthetic based preferably. Not one that is water soluble.
 
I bought a mini grease gun and just filled it with my favorite grease.

Try not to get to much air in the gun, better to cut the end off the grease tube a squeeze a lot in at once.:thumbsup:

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