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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Stripped / Broken lower shock bolt... can't get it out

andyman

andyman

Husqvarna
AA Class
So on my 09 Husky, I hit the three hour mark. As part of what I considered to be routine maintenance, I tore down the rear linkage and swingarm... cleaned, re-greased, and was re-assembling. I had my torque wrench
set to the proper tq of 38.6ft/lb and either didn't feel the click, or the bolt/nut were faulty... cause something let loose. I can neither tighten nor loosen the bolt. I can't pull it out. I'm GUESSING that the threads on the bolt or nut tore loose. Any hints as to how to get this thing off so I can replace it?

I really hate the thought of taking a grinder to a brand new bike.

Thanks!
Andy
 
Thank you! That's the only route I'd thought of. Meant to say I was going to sears after church and see if I could snag one.

Oh, and before I make another mistake... the rest of the linkage is supposed to be 59 ft/lb's right??
 
BWWWWWAAAAAAA****************************************! I got it off... but the nut splitter didn't work for me. :( I spent the last hour with a Dremel.

I bought this nut splitter from Craftsman - Craftsman Nut Splitter

I think the design of the one you linked to would have worked better. The angle of the "nub" on this one was such that it just rode up the nut, and rounded it over the top of the bolt.
 
andyman;47317 said:
BWWWWWAAAAAAA****************************************! I got it off... but the nut splitter didn't work for me. :( I spent the last hour with a Dremel.

I bought this nut splitter from Craftsman - Craftsman Nut Splitter

I think the design of the one you linked to would have worked better. The angle of the "nub" on this one was such that it just rode up the nut, and rounded it over the top of the bolt.
Click to expand...

Yeah, I read the reviews on the link, and the customers didn't seem to like it very well.:thumbsdown:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top