• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

  • 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.

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    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

Seized swing arm axle in OR390

M

Murph

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi guys, just started the strip down of my 79 OR390 and everything was going swimmingly until I tried to remove the swing arm axle. You guessed it - absolutely solid, not budging for anyone, at least not for me anyway :cry:

Anyone else had this situation and what can you suggest to get it out without resorting to highly destructive tactics? :excuseme:

Thanks
 
Thanks, not sure if this stuff is available in the UK, but Plus Gas is similar and is good so will give that a go. :cheers:
 
Same problem on my 86

I drilled holes in the engine case where the swing arm axle goes through to get lube in there. The best penatrating stuff I found, and I tried them all this time, was Gunk Engine Degreaser. It broke down the dried grease and made it somewhat oily again. Still had to trash the shaft driving it out with a punch.
 
Air hammer worked for me. Its vibrations/rattles pushed it out. I also cut a piece of pipe to go against opposite side of frame. Slid it against steel workbench with pipe horizontal with bolt in middle of pipe so air hammers impact would not be absorbed.
 
Thanks for your replies guys, but I have decided against using the original frame now. There is serious corrosion on the inside of the steering head tube and I have decided it isn't worth the risk of it breaking.

I have sourced a 1980 CR390 frame and swing arm and will transfer everything across then probably junk the old frame. Shame, but I am just not happy with the amount of corrosion inside. :thumbsdown:
 
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