• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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.

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18 Dirt Wheel on SM ?

tonycar107

tonycar107

Husqvarna
AA Class
I know there is a post out there where someone did this. I just spent a half hour looking for it with no luck. If anyone has done this or knows of the post please let me know. I've already bought everything I need to completely change my 09 Sm to Dirt ( wheels, front brake setup, forks, triples, shock) everything except the swing arm. I want to keep mine and put the wheel as far back as I can hopefully. Any info would be great. Thank you.
 
If you have all the parts, try it. But I don't think it will fit and still have adjustment. The 17 looks pretty close to the swingarm on the bikes I've seen.. I haven't heard of anyone being successful because its and inch or so shorter than the other swingarms.
 
Maybe some low profile 18" knobby would have a change, but even my 140/80-17 is pretty tight with adjustments...
 
Well I got all my parts yesterday. The rear is a 140/80-18 and it fit. It has about a half inch before it hits the swingarm. I think I am going to get a TE swingarm and a smaller rear tire anyways. I plan on using it for MX. I also found out that the 2011 front caliper will not fit the older models. I think this was posted already but the 2011 wheels bolt right onto the older bikes.
 
Just a though but with that kind of money being tossed into making the SM a TE it might have been worth just buying a second bike. Dealers were dumping 2011's for short money. By the time your done you might be half way there!
 
tonycar107 said:
Well I got all my parts yesterday. The rear is a 140/80-18 and it fit. It has about a half inch before it hits the swingarm. I think I am going to get a TE swingarm and a smaller rear tire anyways. I plan on using it for MX. I also found out that the 2011 front caliper will not fit the older models. I think this was posted already but the 2011 wheels bolt right onto the older bikes.
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There is a slight difference in the rear hub. Rotor sits a couple mm's further out

EDIT, Oops, the rotor sits further out, not the sprocket. Sorry
 
I'll have to check it out when I get home. It looked straight. I would buy another bike but, I don't want all the maintenance that comes with a third bike and I think I am done riding on the street.
 
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