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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC Stillwell linkage guard

be350ka

be350ka

Husqvarna
AA Class
I've had the Stillwell guard on my TE250 since its B-Day. Last week I finally got a chance to test it out on a very jagged rock and I just slid right over. It did what it was supposed to do.

However, I was cleaning the bike (on a stand with weight off wheels) the other day and noticed that, with some force, you can push/pull the guard laterally by 1-2mm. Upon further inspection I noticed that the sleeves that go through the bearings are all touching the linkage components as required, but it appears that the guard it sliding on the sleeve.

I called both Stillwell and Fastway and Fastway confirmed that it was designed that way and it is to have that lateral play. "a few mm is fine, but if you are at 1/2" then there are problems." is what I was told.

Anyone else running this guard? Can you confirm if you have this play (with bike on stand and rear wheel off the ground)? Again It is lateral play, NOT vertical play. The swingarm is rock solid.
 
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