• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

125-200cc 09 WR165 chassis bearings

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omnivore

Husqvarna
B Class
Last Sept I made a feeble attempt to swap out the swingarm and linkage bearings on my WR. With the press I had access to it was too difficult to keep the socket stfaight to press anything out....so I simply cleaned and regreased everything liberally with Lucas Red and Tacky.
However I need to do the job right this winter along with wheel bearings. My local shop has supplied me with Pivot Works kits....they don't seem to have outer seals and may be a bit wider as well.
Anyone have any in sight or advice on doing this crappy chore?
Thx.
 
I have seen multiple time where pivot works had the kits wrong for the Italian huskys probably my last choice of what to use because it is really frustrating.
 
Vice & sockets works a treat for swingarm & bottom shock bearing. I know the 250/300's have a raised centre in the linkage so can't push them out(have to punch out or something similar), can't remember on 125's? Unusual for linkage bearings to be shot, normally swingarm & lower shock are toast & linkage just needs greasing
 
Mine looked to be bone dry when I got bike.....inner races on swingarm bearings even wore grove into swingarm axle. Gonna price that out too or have it welded and milled.
 
Hi guys, agree with OMNIVORE, we did our bikes when brand new and limited grease. They are a shit to do. I have a walkway with concrete both sides and a heat gun and car jack with socket and drivers works but ......

I did find some non oem roller bearings for an earlier model husky that I am doing up (83) and it has double lip seals on the end of the rollers.

Try not to high pressure wash area. difficult not to do.

don't know where you are, but I got big balls kit for mine.
 
doing mine now . have always done it this way... it works. dremel with a carbide burr. cut through the needle bearing shell. it will collapse on itself and fall out. as bagga said. there are raised portions in the bores
 
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