• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

84 Steering stem lower bearing

firecrackerkid

firecrackerkid

Husqvarna
AA Class
Do you have to remove the stem to get the lower bearing off for replacement? Now that I broke it I need to put another one on...and not break it. Dumb Norwegian + big hammer. You get the picture, little bearings everywhere.

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This was the first topic I ever commented on when I joined. Generally I grind almost all the way through what is left of the bearing on the stem and get it off that way. one guy says take out the mig welder and weld on it and get it off before it cools, another may say press the stem out but it might not press out the way you think just from memory. Grind almost all the way through without contaminating good parts with abrasive dust, if it won't rotate with a punch try a little (a high heat in a small area) heat just at the thin spot and it might crack. I find getting the race out of the neck with a punch a little more tricky.
 
Thats a good pic of you Geary! I think the cape would be good at Othello, really fly! The stem is really pressed into triple. I use a cut off wheel on a die grinder. Like Fran said be carefull not to get into stem. I cut into it until I get nervous then wack it the rest of the way off with a air hammer. There is also a thin washer under that bearing you will need to reuse. I use the "dead" bearing to press the new one on.
 
Got it! Thanks fellas. About the cape.... My brother and I tape a whistle tube to our helmets. It is about 3' long and the faster you go the higher pitch it gets. For some reason people look at us funny.
 
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