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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Darn bolt

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pcross71

Husqvarna
AA Class
I set out to unbolt the shift lever to move it up a notch or two and can't seem to get a socket or wrench on it. 2008 TE 450. Have tried holding lever up, down, wobble extension, etc. Bike is on side stand - please tell me i don't need to pull the rear wheel to get this done...
And, noticed the lever has a little up and down and in and out wiggle to it (without the shaft moving) - does that mean its loose or is that normal?

Thanks a ton.
 
Lever shouldn't have any play between it and the shaft. It's a PITA but is possible with the right angle and a wrench. I think I got to it from underneath and sticking the wrench through the frame from near the linkage.
 
I had to use a 1/4" drive socket and also hold the lever up, in order to be able to get at the bolt. My 3/8" drive socket wouldn't even come close.

I'll just note that this was on an '09 TE250.
 
did both of you guys get this done with a standard socket?
i tried and after 30 min's of cussing and banging up the bolt i gave up.
also tried box and open end wrenches but that seemed a non-starter.
thanks for the help.
 
There shouldn't be any play between the lever & the shaft. If you have any, it will only get worse, if you don't address it. It will eventually get bad enough to impair shifting & then eventually strip the splines altogether.

What I did on my 07:

-Mark the lever position on the shaft with a cold chisel or similar.
-Remove the lever- used a 1/4 drive socket & extension from underneath. Fully remove and leave the bolt out for now.
-measure the gap of the clamp with feeler gauges to get a rough idea of how much was there to start with.
-Squeeze the clamp in a vise to reduce the gap of the clamp. Do it bit by bit until you've reduced it about .020" or so(or whatever is necessary to get a snug fit on the shaft). The clamp is springy so you need to do this in baby steps. IMO, it should be snug enough that it requires a small flat blade screwdriver to slightly open the clamp to re-install it.
You can (optionally) put a bit of loctite on the splines when re-installing.
Also, in some cases, it's a good idea to get a longer bolt and install a jam nut on the protruding end, to help increase clamping pressure, or if the threads in the clamp are stripped.
 
pcross71;107475 said:
did both of you guys get this done with a standard socket?
i tried and after 30 min's of cussing and banging up the bolt i gave up.
also tried box and open end wrenches but that seemed a non-starter.
thanks for the help.
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Yes, mine was a standard (i.e. not deep) 1/4" socket. The first time I tried it, I didn't think it would fit, but then I held the lever up, and there wasn't a problem.

I was going to try to get at it from underneath, as Slowpoke suggests, but the frame was in my way.

If it helps any, the total depth from the end of my socket, to the back of my 1/4" ratchet is 41mm. The socket itself is about 21.4mm long, and has a diameter of 12mm.
 
Should be able to get it with a T-handle with a 8mm socket through the frame. (Take it off the stand)
 
Thanks for all the advice.
I gotta say: have been around lots of forums on many topics and this one is by far the best - tons of helpful and quick advice and no attitude!
 
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