• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

FE/FC Cross Post: Linkage Hardware???

be350ka

be350ka

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'm sorry for the cross post, but I had posted this in the 2t section.

Here it goes:

I'm picking up a 2015 TE250 in a month when it arrives, but I'm currently getting my ducks in a row for its arrival. I have always been a fan of ensuring that the bearings are well lubed prior to the season starting and plan on doing just that over the winter. However, I need some help here from those of you who already have this bike in the garage.
  1. Are the bearings still coming pretty dry from the factory? It seem that it depends on which day they were assembled.
  2. Does the 2014/2015 Husky have that darn cone nut with a flat side to secure the dog bone to the frame?
  3. Can someone post some good picture of this area if in fact they are using the nut from hell as described on KTMtalk.
  4. Those of you who have remove the linkage and swingarm for a touch up what did you find with the hardware and the condition of the bearings? Did the cone nut give you fits? Stories welcomed.
Thanks again for your help guys!! I'm already happy to be in.....well, close to in the club. I'm very excited and hauling my buddy's TE125 home for him yesterday didn't help with the wait. Oh well, I need the rest as I found that mashing your wrist into a tree only results in plates and 11 screws. On the mend.....
 
 
The TEs have the cone nut. This link looks like that for the 125. We'll see. On the 2t thread a member said heat only solved his problem. Also RED Loctite was mentioned as oem. The bikes that had tons of issues looked to have green (2011-2013 KTM).
Thanks for the post.
 
#19 is the bugger. Strange thing is it's showing that the bolt goes in from the shifter side. Hmmm. This pic is what I've seen on the bikes. I guess I'll wait till it gets here. Either way I hope they did lighten up on the loctite.
 

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Check out Jeff Slaven's Youtube channel. He shows how to remove the rear shock, including that strange nut. Heat on the thread locker is needed.
 
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