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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Broken Shifter Shaft removal .... looking for some input

Camano Husky

Camano Husky

Husqvarna
A Class
Broke my 2008 TE250 shifter shaft and bought a replacement but I'm running into a problem with getting the shaft out past the frame. I assume I'll have to go through some or all of the steps to removing the motor in order to shift the motor enough to get the clearance needed to swap the shaft. Has anyone had to replace their shifter shaft?

Here's where she sits now: tank off, motor side cover off, & engine bolts removed. The motor has no give to slide up or forward. So do I need to go all the way and remove the chain, remove the radiator hoses, remove the exhaust, remove the EFI connection, and / or remove the swing arm in order to get enough space to shift the motor up or forward???? I'm hoping someone has the magic answer of doing one or two of these above so I can get the shaft swapped without tearing everything apart!
 

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I would try removing the mounts, except the swing arm. Take the radiator mount bolts out but leave the hoses on and remove the front exhaust so you can pivot the motor on the swing arm bolt. That looks like it will give you the room to get the job done. You might consider greasing the swing arm stuff when you are done though. Let us know how it goes.
 
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