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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

87 WR430 rear suspension parts

Darrel78

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'm rebuilding the swing arm / shock linkage and find the heim joints ( the big one, not the two smaller ones) are $$$ to find. Has anyone simply replaced this joint with roller needle bearing and shaft? The bearings are simple to source and I can turn / harden shafts but am not looking to make a spherical baring. May I get your thoughts? How do you guys re-furbish your linkages?
 
I'm rebuilding the swing arm / shock linkage and find the heim joints ( the big one, not the two smaller ones) are $$$ to find. Has anyone simply replaced this joint with roller needle bearing and shaft? The bearings are simple to source and I can turn / harden shafts but am not looking to make a spherical baring. May I get your thoughts? How do you guys re-furbish your linkages?


Which one are you trying to source? I see two larger spherical bearings (8), on the horizontal linkage, one at the frame end the other at the linkage (available). Then one smaller one on the linkage for the lower shock connection (14)..
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Then one smaller one on the linkage for the lower shock connection (14)..

This one measures 16x30x19 on mine and is actually the larger bearing. I need part 16 as well but seems these are no longer available. I found a bearing with 17x30x14 (GE17ES) and can make that one work ($20). Found a NOS part for $98 but would still have to make the part 16 (need two of these).
Halls has in stock the part 8 for $20 and this size (12x26x16) seems common enough. These numbers are id x OD x width so my plans are to get the two smaller ones from Halls and then make the GE17ES work. Since I have to make the two part 16 "collar" parts I can simply adjust them to compensate.
 
What about the 1 in the bottom of the shock and the front of the linkage on the 85/6 Andy?

Thanks

Steve
 
So looking at my bearings . The big ones are 30x12 and the lower shock bearing is 26 x 10 . Outside of hole to bolt diameter .
Deep groove bearings are available in both these sizes by 8 mm wide
Is there any particular reason I cant double up on standard deep groove bearings in all 3 locations . Can leave a gap in the middle and remove inside seals and drill the grease passage through to them . Sealing can be a rubber washer
Or steel washer . With positive greasing it'd last as long as 20 dolLars worth of bearings needs to last
 
The shock has to have a spherical Heim bearing for the linkage to properly work. The shock needs to pivot side to side. You will have to use COM10T bearing
15.875 x 30.1625 x 15.875 and machine new spacers to make up any differences. I have not had the time to do this yet.
 
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