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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Time for New Bearings?

Kenneth Webb

Kenneth Webb

Livin' It Up!
I changed the rear tire on my 630 today and noticed some burnished areas on the axle at the bearing race areas. The bearings turn stiffly, but are not rough and have no noticeable play. It looks like the inner races are spinning on the axle instead of turning with it. Time for new bearings? This is going on a dyno in less than two weeks.
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I had a little bit of that awhile ago. I thought I had tightened the axel to much and put pressuer on the out side of the bearing. I have stopped tightening the axel as much and it never happened again. At 7k now and still good.
 
Kenneth Webb said:
I changed the rear tire on my 630 today and noticed some burnished areas on the axle at the bearing race areas. The bearings turn stiffly, but are not rough and have no noticeable play. It looks like the inner races are spinning on the axle instead of turning with it. Time for new bearings? This is going on a dyno in less than two weeks.
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Oops!, didn't mean to post that. I was going to take your excellent pictures out of my post to help the slow computer folks.
Are there scoring marks from the race turning or just what look like bright spots? All my axles have always had bright spots.
Even new bearings will feel stiff because when you try to turn an inner race, you are actually trying to turn all three inner races because of the inner bearing spacer.
As a side note:
The axle nut only puts pressure on the inner races and needs to be tight or they can spin on the axle.
 
There is no scoring, just bright spots. I did notice that when I removed the axle that the nut wasn't as tight as it should have been. It may be that the inner races were turning and not locked down. I've taken the precaution of ordering new bearings and seals for front and rear just in case I decide to change them this weekend. Man, overnight shipping is expensive! I need to have spare bearings on hand anyway for that bike. i think I'm still good for now so will button up and ride!
 
Your bearings are probably fine. Did you pick the seals out and have a look? I try to take the outer seals out at every tire change and change the grease so to speak. Blow the existing out with compressed air and repacking them with good water proof grease.
The bearings that come in our bikes are of high quality and worth the trouble to maintain. Having said that, for some reason they don't come with much grease in them though, so I pack up the bearings when new.
 
I forget, do Huskys have axle bearing spacers/sleeves to keep from over-tightening the bearings? I know even when I kong down on the rear axle, the wheel still spins freely.
 
The shiny can be simply from the minute vibration polishing the axle surface. Obviously I can't see your axle in 3D, but I wouldn't worry unless I saw scoring on the axle. If your inner race is spinning on the axle, there will be scoring.
 
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