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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Hello and stripped fork bleeder question

Mac

Mac

Husqvarna
A Class
Hi guys. Great forum you all have here! I have just recently purchased a 2011 TE449 and love this bike.

About 3 months ago one of my mates purchased an 11 TE449 as he always liked things that were a bit different and after having a ride of it at one of our usual forrest locations I could not belive how good it made me ride and feel compared to my 08 KTM 250 EXC 2 stroke (first and only dirt bike) and decided I had to have one. The excess old stock here in Australia meant that the second hand market was pretty cheap and 2 months later I ended up with a clean 500km example with the usual extras for only a small trade up on the KTM which was great.

I installed some Motion Pro mini fork bleeders before the last ride and noticed during the ride that the left hand side bleeder must have not sealed on the o-ring properly as there was some dusty weepage evident around the area. Checked the tension after ride (uses a large flat blade screwdriver to tension) and the damn thing appears to have pulled / stripped the threads in the fork cap. I'm normally particular about this sort of thing so needless to say not happy!

Question is - Am I running risk of having alloy shaving inside my fork now with detriment to seal operation? If anyone has come across this before should I look at helicoil repair, just replace fork cap or pull down the fork leg for clean and replace seals etc.

Thanks for any advice!
 
Excellent. What I thought was the bleeder thread stripped was actually the top section of the Motion Pro mini bleeder turning inside its own body! Very happy!


Back to Trooper Lu's next week to see if they can swap over for another set.
 
Kudos to Trooper Lu's Garage. Replaced the Motion Pro bleeders no questions asked. Thanks guys..
 
Fantastic! Its like a splash of cool water over your had after you start running ” what if?” scenarios in your brain when its no big deal after all.
 
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