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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Remove Rear Shock...really?

C

ContraHusky

Husqvarna
A Class
The shop manual says to remove the entire TE630 subframe to get the shock out. Now that I've fiddled with it, I fear the manual is correct. :eek:

Anybody have a shortcut that doesn't involve disassembling half the bike?

I just want to replace the stinkin' spring.
 
I've done it on a 610..... Remove the swing arm bolt, and the bolt in the center of the swing arm that connects the link. Pull the swing arm straight back nd off of the bike, then undo the shock bolts and fight with it a little until you get it off through the bottom. While it's apart, check the bearings, some 610's had very little grease.... Have fun.....
 
Stroker Ace said:
I've done it on a 610..... Remove the swing arm bolt, and the bolt in the center of the swing arm that connects the link. Pull the swing arm straight back nd off of the bike, then undo the shock bolts and fight with it a little until you get it off through the bottom. While it's apart, check the bearings, some 610's had very little grease.... Have fun.....
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So...the shock can come out if the swingarm is pulled out a bit? That's a lot easier than removing the subframe.

Will report back...
 
Ok. Success. Mufflers and connector pipe must come off, too. Drop the swingarm and the shock jiggles out.

New spring in and everything buttoned back up. Will check sag tomorrow.

BTW -- shop manual says maximum loaded spring length (ie, minimum sag setting) is 23.7cm. My stock spring was at 24.3cm and I still didn't have enough sag. The 5.8 spring might do the trick.
 
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