• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    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!

Busted Nut

ARH

ARH

Husqvarna
AA Class
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Anyone else seen this happen before? I was just out cleaning up the bikes to put them away for winter and noticed this huge crack in the top steering nut. What could have caused this? This is my husband's 2011 TE250. I think he may have ridden it like this! I would have noticed last time I washed the bikes so it could not have been like this too long. I'm going to order a new nut from Halls as soon as they open on Tue. Everything seems to still be snug and in place. Anything else I should check that may have caused or be caused by this? I think it could have been really bad if it had let go.
 
You don't suppose it was overtorqued, got colder out and cracked. I've seen that with overtorqued lug nuts? Aluminum is lill softer?
 
head bearings arnt notchy no? agreed weird to happen but good spottage.
just re torque the triple clamps and check for any head play.
 
Perhaps it had a flaw that wasn't visable. Something that thin in terms of inner diameter vs. outer diameter and having to holds good torque places a lot of strain on that weak spot.

Eventually with the loads associated in keeping a steering stem together will cause it to fail at some point. I bet the temp swings in Michigan helped as well. Good eye on that, looks like he owes you dinner.
 
I agree it may have something to do with the temp swings, it reminds me of what happened to a big tree next to my house during a drastic freeze-thaw cycle, split right down the middle. Still, the other bikes are freezing and thawing and none of the other parts are bursting... I'm not sure what it was torqued down to, never had to adjust the steering on this bike. It was part of the husky demo fleet before we got it, I figure the people at Husky headquarters know what they are doing. I did have to loosen and re-tighten this same nut on my own bike to adjust the other notched nut below it. I just used a big adjustable wrench to tighten it down as best I could since I don't have a socket this big and so could not use the torque wrench. How do you know how tight is too tight? I am in the habit of giving my bike a good look-over before and after riding, a habit carried over from when I used to ride horses, just something you have to do with an animal, I guess it is a good practice with a mechanical horse too.
 
I'm sure it's not a chisel mark, no dents on the top surface, or any other signs of abuse. The inside of the crack is jagged and irregular, like the metal was cracked off (like a broken brake lever).

Strange at it way sound, I actually like to clean and maintain the bikes, better than cleaning other things anyway, such as the sink full of dishes, the bathroom... lets just say I let the other housework slide a bit. You got to have priorities.
 
Priorities indeed! Happy wife, happy life.
I bet he's good at scrubbing if he's as smart as he seems to be to have picked you.
 
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