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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Cannot get stem out of triple clamps (TE511)

Is there an allen head at the bottom of the stem? If it is like mine, it must be removed before the stem will press out.
 
Took it to a local motorcycle "performance" shop which shall not be named. They decided more heat and pressure would do it. Had a thing that goes in the end of the stem and a nut to push on. Still didn't budge and then deformed the end of the stem, like the first thread and a half. I told them how its not easy to get another clamp/stem so to be careful. Pretty much agreed that its in there very very tight. they said I should freeze it and bring it back. OR just hit it with a torch to break any Loctite loose. They hit it with a propane torch for quite awhile and messed with it with no luck.

So now I got the first thread and a half mushroomed and it stripped the nut they had on there without cleaning the threads.

I may have a line on a set of the 15mm clamps used, or xtrig will make me a set of 12mm or 14mm adjustable clamps anodized red for some $$. In the meantime I am going to cleanup the threads on the stem and just re-use it stock. Powdercoating it black is not that big of a deal :) Usually a 30 minute job. Push on stem, sandblast, tape off, apply powder/dust in the little booth, toss in oven for a few minutes, let cool.
 
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