• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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Damn....another failure. Broken rear shock

fire1998

fire1998

Husqvarna
AA Class
1 hour into my race yesterday my rear shock broke. Not having the best luck with this bike! Man I love the bike but this is getting ridiculous. As far as I can see linkage is good. Top shock bolt is in. Don't know what happened. I'll pull it of toy hauler today and tear into it some more.
 

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wierd. Its like the shaft is broke or the spring as it is odd how it is sitting like that. the spring should hold it up. Interested to hear whats up.
 
Springs not broke from what I can see. Shaft looks crooked right now. I'll let ya know tonight. Luckily it happened on a corner with soft inside berm.
 
Shocks moves up and down. Track had a lot of jumps and step ups. I'm not a great jumper so bike took some hard hits. Here's a pic
 

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Yep. Suspension was sent in for a revalve after first ride on it. Has a 6.0 spring on rear. Bike has about 20-25 hours on it of racing in B class offroad. Called my Suspension guy today and he's never heard of this happening before. Ordered new parts today from KYB and they said it's not a part that fails very often.
 
Just another possibility.
Check to see if the spring coils have marks where the coils have touched each other.

If there are marks in the paint on all coils, the replacement coil may have 'coil bound' at full stroke instead of you hitting the bump rubber on compression.
The effect is that you go from a moving damper to a solid metal object & break the weakest link in the chain, in this case, the spring collar.

I had this happen in a rally car shock. Changed the spring brand, same rate, less coils & the problem was resolved.
 
My suspension guy gave me formula to figure out if coil is binding or bottoming out before bumper. Just have to take shock out tonight and do some measuring. He has been using same spring manufacturer for years so he doesn't think that is the problem.
 
Was just a thought.
If it bound hard enough to break the spring cup, the paint will be marked so should be pretty easy to see.
 
Husky down**************************************** Shock shaft is bent!! Spring looks good, no rub marks. Had to be lower shock retainer that broke first or shock shaft bent??? Crap.....got a good deal on bike new but might have been a mistake. First rad hose burst from an obvious engineering fault with 15 hours on bike, now this. Anyone know where I can find a used Husky shock?? I've bought bikes with 100 hours that didn't have problems. I already know what Husky USA would say, "it's a race bike and we can't tell you what will break with 20 hours on it"!!!
I'm in garage putting back together an 09 KLX 450r with 400 miles on it that I picked up for my desert/long ride bike. Have it completely torn down for a prep. I've got a race Sunday and it's a tight race not an open race that I've been doing. I'm not looking forward to riding a 270lb 450 in that crap!!!
 
I'm going to check out my bike in the morning and see what all you're talking about. I've seen quite few people parting these bikes out so you may find the parts you need.
 
I would say the collar broke first then things getting bound up caused the shaft to bend.
Blame it on Kayaba they made the shock.
 
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