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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Chain Snapped.

While your chain is off, pop your front sprocket off and put some heavy grease on the countershaft splines. Not oil, not wd40, not tri-flow, heavy grease. Do that every time you put a tire on it.
 
JonXX said:
While your chain is off, pop your front sprocket off and put some heavy grease on the countershaft splines. Not oil, not wd40, not tri-flow, heavy grease. Do that every time you put a tire on it.
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I know that is a popular practice to help with spline wear. I think it is when we are talking about a fairly dirt free environment.
When things get dirty (IMO) the grease holds the dirt and forms a mixture very similar to valve grinding paste.
On heavy equipment I have experienced less pin and bushing wear by leaving the grease out of unsealed pivot joints that are always in the dirt.
 
I keep everything greased and oiled, but I clean and relube after every dirty ride. If you ride real dusty stuff,
Maybe keep it dry, wet, muddy (it's like sand paper) good waterproof grease keeps it out. Dry metal wears out
Faster than lubricated metal, but you have to keep up with it.
 
JonXX said:
While your chain is off, pop your front sprocket off and put some heavy grease on the countershaft splines. Not oil, not wd40, not tri-flow, heavy grease. Do that every time you put a tire on it.
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Popping the front sprocket off, is it simply a case of removing the circlip and it will slide off the countershaft?
 
Xcuvator said:
I know that is a popular practice to help with spline wear. I think it is when we are talking about a fairly dirt free environment.
When things get dirty (IMO) the grease holds the dirt and forms a mixture very similar to valve grinding paste.
On heavy equipment I have experienced less pin and bushing wear by leaving the grease out of unsealed pivot joints that are always in the dirt.
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That's an excellent point.

MitchTE450 said:
Popping the front sprocket off, is it simply a case of removing the circlip and it will slide off the countershaft?
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Yes.
 
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