• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

All 2st Front Axle, Allen size?

Jhunter

Jhunter

Husqvarna
AA Class
I went to take off my front wheel last night and I don't have a large enough Allen wrench to remove the axle nut. Anyone know what size that thing is? (2008 WR-250).
 
Take a 12mm bolt and a pair of vice grips and if that doesn't work put two nuts on the bolt and lock them together, then take a wrench and turn one end. Sometimes that nut is not very tight.
 
That was a bad move on Husky's part. It requires a special HUGE allen wrench. It should have been the same or smaller than the rear axle nut. It really weighs down your fanny pack.
 
Vinduro, I agree with you. Bad move on Husky's part. I could only find a 1/2" drive socket so there is no way I'm hauling a 1/2 drive ratchet in my fanny pack. I may need to special order one loose 12mm Allen Key just for my trail pack.
 
rancher1 said:
This is the real solution, get the wrench right below the axle nut with the nut, then you carry one tool for the front and rear axle nuts !
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Or make one; just cut 35 mm off your 12mm allen wrench with a metal chopsaw.
Get your machinist buddy to spin it and cut two grooves all the way around it; one at 5mm and one at 25mm. Put a circlip/external retaining clip on the 5mm groove stuff it through the axle nut leaving the 10mm bit sticking out and slap the 2nd circlip on it. This leaves a 10mm long 12mm 'nut' that is the same size as your rim locks and tube nuts. All you need it a 12 mm wrench for everything.
 
All great ideas. Those wrenches get heavy though. I think the stock allen wrench that came with my bike was in the 3-4 oz range, which does not sound like much but those things do add up quickly with all the other things in the tool bag.
 
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