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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Cush Hub TE630

G

genghis9021

Husqvarna
AA Class
How necessary do you think this is ?

The DRZs don't have them (well, the Japanese market SMs do).

If they sold the SM630s without them . . .

Choices are the uber-expensive Eagle hub/wheel whether Rad or Woody's builds it for ~$1000.

Or . . . use a 2000-2003ish TE610 hub and build your own.

My application . . . remote riding (Siberia, Mongolia).
 
or buy a cush rear sprocket and get fresh dampners at every sprocket change. with our cush clutch I think this should be sufficient. I priced out the older TE610 cush rear hub assy once and parts cost came to around $400 IIRC.

http://www.kushsprockets.com/products/husqvarna-te-tc-sm-txc-etc-rear-dampening-sprocket

Long term reliability for the Kush is not fully known yet but reviews thus far are promising. It will be my next sprocket unless some bad news gets published before I purchase.

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I've got a Kush sprocket, it's shows some wear and tear on the poly inserts, but none have gone missing yet...

It definitely smoothed things out, and should help with gearbox life.
 
My vote is for a new cush hub (TE 610). It allows more gearing options, the choice of DirtTricks sprockets (ridiculously long-lived), eliminates any worries about obsolescence or discontinuance by KushSprockets and . . . there's no doubt it works.

It's not REALLY that more expensive, either. ~400 for a wheel built vs $100 for just (kush)sprocket that may or may not be durable.
 
genghis9021 said:
My vote is for a new cush hub (TE 610). It allows more gearing options, the choice of DirtTricks sprockets (ridiculously long-lived), eliminates any worries about obsolescence or discontinuance by KushSprockets and . . . there's no doubt it works.

It's not REALLY that more expensive, either. ~400 for a wheel built vs $100 for just (kush)sprocket that may or may not be durable.
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Why worry about obsolescence? If they do you just move on to next option. Nothing to replenish, if you wear out the sprocket teeth you buy another just like any other sprocket. $400 was parts cost only so add labor and possibly shipping to get it laced and trued. With cush hub you also have reoccuring costs for dampner replacements. $100 Kush sprocket cost is probably about the same if not less than a DirtTricks sprocket so no extra cost. Worth a try I think especially since not 100% needed for our bike. If our bikes didn't have the cush clutch I'd probably go for the cush hub though.

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Some of the Husky cush hub parts haven't been available for years.
Used Husky hub assemblies are extremely rare.
 
Kenneth Webb said:
I will be opting for Woodys reinforced Rad cush hub in the near future. The 630 is worth making it last and last.
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Agreed. It's a great bike and worth the investment, for sure. Riding the KushSprocket thru lots of water crossings/mud . . . not something that seems sensible.
 
Kenneth Webb said:
I will be opting for Woodys reinforced Rad cush hub in the near future. The 630 is worth making it last and last.
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I agree but the Canadian dollar and shipping costs are making this option unlikely for me. Now if I could find something in B.C. !
 
I saw a thread mentionning that the KTM 640 cush hub/wheel is a straight fit - just need to change the bearings. Anyone tried that and can confirm?
 
Kickaha said:
I saw a thread mentionning that the KTM 640 cush hub/wheel is a straight fit - just need to change the bearings. Anyone tried that and can confirm?
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That information was likely coming from me. I haven't done that exactly and the person to confer with is Zach at woodys wheel works.

The logic goes like this........

Woodys take the KTM640 hub and fit it to the 525's for cush all the time. Their RAD cush hub fits the same application. I had a 525 RAD cush hub that I kept when I sold the bike and Zach did the measurements and determined that it would fit with a bearing swap to match the husky axle diameter, might need different spacers as I haven't gone out and measured the cush v. stock yet. I've been running the 525 RAD hub on the 610 for about 4 years now with no issues. 640 v. RAD hub is about a $150 savings, either way it's pricey. In my opinion worth it for a bike I want to keep for a good long time.
 
I can confirm the KTM 640 hub works. It did require some new machined spacers for which I'll give measurements, shortly.

Here it is on my TE 630 overlooking downtown (Century City) LA from Mulholland Drive.

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Hmmmm.. So.... does that mean the alloy rear wheel from a KTM Duke 640 may bolt up to the rear of a TE630, for those wishing to convert to SM and have a kush hub??? I'm really wanting a SM setup for my 630.
 
genghis9021 said:
I can confirm the KTM 640 hub works. It did require some new machined spacers for which I'll give measurements, shortly.

Here it is on my TE 630 overlooking downtown (Century City) LA from Mulholland Drive.
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Still have those spacer dimensions? I think I'm going to go this route since I can't weem to keep Kush sprockets from falling apart..
 
RDTCU said:
Still have those spacer dimensions? I think I'm going to go this route since I can't weem to keep Kush sprockets from falling apart..
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Christ ! I've been busy and derelict.

I'll try very hard to have the dimensions before newt weekend.

Sorry !

Kurt
 
Ok looks like the mob above will do the rear wheel only.I asked for a red hub +black rim and it came to 399 delivered.discs are 40 and sprockets 50.
 
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