• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 FC swingarm contacting brake master cylinder

HusqRacr

HusqRacr

Husqvarna
AA Class
Anyone find a solution for the swingarm contacting the rear brake master at full compression? It only seems to happen at the MX track on bigger jumps. The TransworldMX magazine '15 FC450 test bike came through our shop a month ago and it looked like a chainsaw hit it..:(. After speaking to some people at Husky it seems its just swingarm flex and a tight clearance.

A local suspension tuner mentioned installing a 1.25mm thick washer on the left side of swingarm/motor gap and its supposed to not bring in the frame as much at correct swingarm nut torque. I've installed a shim but it still looks like its making contact. I haven't heard of the KTM guys having the same issues....yet. Just wanted to throw it out there..

 
check your master cylinder mount very carefully, I had somehow pushed mine in a fall or something and it was doing the same thing. I could see just a little paint crack evidence and when I looked at it from the rear could see it was slightly off from the line up with the chassis. I used a long prybar and tweaked it back into alignment, had been fine since.
 
I'll try to pry it out. Surprisingly its doing this at only 5 hrs of use, and somehow, I haven't even crashed it yet.:excuseme:...or had it on its side for that matter. The main concern was I'm installing the cool black swingarm covers to keep my pretty swingarm.. well, pretty. But they contact the master cylinder to the point it jams it in place.. Sounds like a pry bar and dremel tool are going to get used tonight.. See ya in baja Rob!
 
I need to back up on this.......my mind....I think that chafe was on my ex-Italian Husky TXC310R.......for sure it happened I just need to sort which bike. I started thinking about it and I second guessed myself. But check it on the New husky anyway it did happen and some bending cured it.
 
robertaccio said:
I need to back up on this.......my mind....I think that chafe was on my ex-Italian Husky TXC310R.......for sure it happened I just need to sort which bike. I started thinking about it and I second guessed myself. But check it on the New husky anyway it did happen and some bending cured it.
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+1. I've done the same thing. On some bike in the past. Can't remember for sure either which bike. Master tab would bend eventually from falls, or just from my right boot hitting it.
 
Yep I have to check my TXC250 after every woods ride, for some reason the rear master mount winds up leaning inward.
 
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