• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 cracked swinger!! 09 wr300

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Pinittowinit

Husqvarna
AA Class
well as most of you know i bought the Glenn Kearney bike. it showed up monday and I assembled it. i spend the last few days going over it. greasing all bearings, changing all fluids, adding goodies, chain, sprockets. basicly completely tearing it apart and re assembling it. as i was poking around with the linkage today i found this crack. i thought i would pass the info along. I am not in the least bit mad about it. after all it is a race bike and was ridden as such. im passing the info along because it could have been the was it was ridden or could be a flaw in the welding process overall. so give your swingarms a good once over. i hope it is just mine. as for now im gonna ride it and keep and eye on it. if it gets any bigger im gonna pull it and reweld it.
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i def dont recomend you ride it. but, if ya gotta, drill a tiny "stop hole" on each end of that crack to prevent migration.
 
I'd strip it and get it rewelded...easier to weld that small crack than replacing the whole swingarm.
 
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