• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

250-500cc Can't get swingarm back in, WTF?

Kevin Sorce

Kevin Sorce

Husqvarna
AA Class
I had to pull the swingarm on my 99' WR250 that I am restoring (one of the chain adjusters was corroded and even after PB and heat it broke off). I took the swingarm to a local machine shop where luckily the guy there is a long time motorcyclist and enduro rider. He drilled out the broken bolt, then I cleaned up the SA for reassembly on the bike.

The SA was a little tight coming out, however, I can't get it back in the frame. its as if the SA is 1/8 of an inch (or more) wider. I double checked the bushings and they are seated in fine and flush. I never removed them when it went to the machine shop, only wired them in place so they wouldn't fall out.

I'm thinking there must be some trick to this and hoping you guys can help. HELP!
 
Kevin Sorce said:
I had to pull the swingarm on my 99' WR250 that I am restoring (one of the chain adjusters was corroded and even after PB and heat it broke off). I took the swingarm to a local machine shop where luckily the guy there is a long time motorcyclist and enduro rider. He drilled out the broken bolt, then I cleaned up the SA for reassembly on the bike.

The SA was a little tight coming out, however, I can't get it back in the frame. its as if the SA is 1/8 of an inch (or more) wider. I double checked the bushings and they are seated in fine and flush. I never removed them when it went to the machine shop, only wired them in place so they wouldn't fall out.

I'm thinking there must be some trick to this and hoping you guys can help. HELP!
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11:23 PM Okay so I'm a complete dunce. When I pulled the bushings to clean and grease them I inserted them from the outside! it went right back together now!
 
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