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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Should I replace this axle?

EricV

EricV

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi Gang-

It's from a 630 @ 19K miles. This burnishing you see on the rear axle started long, long ago though. The bearings always seemed to be fine, so didn't replace them (until now, this week.) I understand that this is typically caused by bad, or stiff, bearings (spinning on the axle, under load.)

The shop (that I described this axle to) said they'd replace the axle. This burnishing you see isn't deep- you can barely get a fingernail to hang up on it.

Would you replace it? Perhaps flip it so that the burnishing is on the brake side (as opposed to the torquey side)? I'd prefer not to replace the thing, but am also concerned that it'll just continue (as that burnished area is slick.) The burnished area, BTW, only goes around half of it (and it's also "chrome" looking on that affected area- what you see on that area is a reflection of flowers.)

Thanks for your opinions.

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All good- huge thanks all. Yes- I agree- I do not think it's necessary to replace the thing. You know how these things go, though: The guy at the shop seemed emphatic about it so I thought I'd seek an opinion here. Bike is back together with a new rear tire and I'm enjoying riding it!
 
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