• 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.

    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Steering stem bearing race removal

If I could press it out I could treat any corrosion that's been working away for 35 years, especially between the dissimilar metals.
 
There should be room for a small bearing clamp remover? Then press or pull the bearing off using puller with threaded rods all the bearing clamps have two threaded holes.
 
I used to grind the cup race off with a power file or a dremel but now just take it to a bike shop and ask them to press out the stem and fit a new bearing. Way easier and no risk of damage. My 6 tonne press won't budge the stem from the lower triple clamp.
 
Press and heat. I call heat my 2,000 degree liquid wrench. From my years of heating things only half the diameter needs to be heated.
 
My point is by heating the whole diameter we put too much heat that will transfer into the shaft. Heat half the diameter will expand half the diameter more and release the bearing.
 
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