• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 2008 CR144 Linkage Bearing Question

offroadeast

offroadeast

Husqvarna
AA Class
I was in the shop yesterday all set to replace the swingarm/linkage bearings in my CR144 and ran into a problem. Like always (never on a husky though) I went to the arbor press and started to remove the old bearings. When I tried to press the bearings out through the bottom, the top bearing was crushed. After a bunch trouble I got the bearings out but there was some damage in the bore where the bearings were pressed out of. It looked like there was a spacer or shoulder between the two bearings in the linkage.

Is the bearing outer diameter straight through the linkage or is there a shoulder in the centre of the linkage that the bearings butt up against? If the bore diameter does not go straight through the linkage, is there a special bearing puller that I need to buy or make to finish the job?

I have replaced hundreds of suspension bearings and have never run into this before.
 
Yes, there is a shoulder in there. And the newer Hondas have one also.

You're supposed to use a inner, or blind bearing puller to remove them. I've been able to get them out with a drift in the past.

My buddy thought it was a dumb idea on his Honda, so I bored the shoulder out for him, so he can drive them straight threw.
 
Great, thanks for the info. I'm glad that I'm not the only one that ran into this trouble. I think I will Just set all the links up on the mill and clear out the shoulder.

Can the swingarm bearings be pressed right through, or do I need a blind puller for it as well?

Thanks again for the great response:notworthy:
 
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