• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE449/511 Front Sprocket Noise

C

coleman1495

Husqvarna
A Class
I have noticed lately my bike is making funny sounds when I roll it ahead in neutral. It makes dull popping sounds from the front sprocket. Almost sounds like the sprocket teeth on the chain.. I took the chain off and turned the front sprocket by hand. It does not make any noise.

I did however notice that the front sprocket had a bit of movement when it on the spline. Is it normal for the front sprocket to have that much play in it? I had changed the front sprocket last season and dont remember how it was when I took it off. Maybe I could have missed something or assembled it wrong when I took the sprocket out.

Also the front sprocket has a good deal of aluminum dust/gunk on it.

Thanks in advance
 
I just finally swapped out to a 14 up front last week. The fit was very tight. In fact the new Supersprox gear was a tad too thick, preventing the locking ring from being able to slide on enough to allow it to turn and match up to the bolt holes in the sprocket.

I had to do some very sophisticated machining using sand paper and a flat surface to reduce the thickness enough to install it properly. I compared the new one with the stock one with a little over 2000 mi on it to make sure that's what I needed to do and found no real flop after all those miles.

When you say aluminum dust, are you using an aluminum sprocket? With the amount of torque on that gear it might just be worn out. Perhaps you should try putting the old on back on and comparing the amount of slop. IMO, the weight savings of aluminum sprockets (if this is what you're using) are not worth the loss of durability.
 
I have a aluminum rear sprocket and I believe the front is a steel one (Renthal brand). When you say the locking ring are you talking the piece held on with two 10m bolts?
 
I am at work for the next few days so I cant try putting the factory gear back on. I am hoping that the output spline (not sure what the technical term for it is) is not screwed up. Either way I have a Dirt tricks sprocket set (and chain) on the way. The rear sprocket is pretty shredded already. The teeth are already pointy and have lost their profile.Only has about 250kms on it. Also had a new chain when I put the rear sprocket on. I guess that teaches me for buying Renthal crap.
 
Did you have to custom order the set from Dirt Tricks? I was doing some research and they didn't list our bikes, but I know ZipTy gets them. They are awesome and should last much much longer.
 
I ordered the set directly from dirt tricks. They are listed on the dirt tricks website.

I remember back when I had my ttr225 I could get away with only changing either the sprocket or the chain. I had never heard of changing the front sprocket.

Oh the price of power.
 
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