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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

250-500cc '12 WR300 Wheel Bearings

R

Rik Lipscomb

Husqvarna
A Class
With some suspicion that all the posts I've researched about lack of grease on new bikes couldn't be totally true, I decided to go ahead and remove the wheel bearings from my yet to be ridden new wr300 to find they actually do not have very much grease from the factory; however, to get the bearings out it is virtually impossible not to remove them from any point other than the inner ring which put quite a bit of stress on the ball bearings. Should I just scrap these and buy new ones.

Also, I've not done the front hub yet but the rear has 3 bearings. I paid no attention to where they were when removed but 2 are made in France and the other in Italy. They look to be the same other than slight difference in the grease covers so I'm thinking it makes no difference where these go back in (if I even re-use them). Does it?

If I need to buy new bearings to replace my "new" bearings, where do you suggest I purchase good quality ones (not China crap).

Thanks
 
Once you pound out the bearings they are compromised.
Woulda been better to let them wear out first but......

The thick bearing goes on the brake disk side and the 2 thinner ones are stacked on the sprocket side of the wheel.

Do not...try to put them in any other way.

The cheap All Balls kits work okay....chinese I bet.
 
All balls work good, but same deal, not much grease, and thin, light grease at that... Sounds like you already know to grease them...
 
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