• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

Front wheel removal tools

Long_Stroke said:
I made a tool. Its a 12mm head bolt (JIS M8) with two nuts locked together on the other end. Voila!
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ditto! i loose that thing almost as much as my 4" 12mm key. its silly. so i tied an orange ribbon to both. still loose 'em but they are easier to find now!
 
pvduke said:
and just what the hell is 'bubble n squeak'? heard its a food.

sounds more like a cooling system issue that needs diagnosing. you Brits are wonky.
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I would be careful slagging of the Brits matey ! If we wanted to start on "You Yanks" people would be writing essays ! LOL !!!

I am just trying to explain that on a European Motorcycle its not crazy or a suprise to need a 12mm Allen Key (Wrench if it makes you happy !)
What the hell would you expect 15/32nds lol !
 
pafft- whingin poms. :rolleyes:

we'd weld on a bit and call it a 1/2", cuz us yanks is gots ingenuity! woot! :D
 
antartica dont count...there's no one living there! :busted:

i like the Motosportz nut 'n wrench combo as Radar indicated. The Zip Ty one is wicked cool looking though. I like them both.

ok- that's about all talk about nuts talk im comfy with.
 
I like metric threads and fastener sizes, no question. The thing of it is that I do some machine work in my shop. My three lathes and Bridgeport mill are all calibrated in decimals of inches. My brain (old) thinks in " and that is all there is to it.
The threads I cut on the lathes or with dies/taps are always metric when possible, but old habits and dogs are hard to change.....
 
ripnriding said:
ruh roh...I just ordered a ridiculously expensive 11 mm (part was cheap...shipping 25 BUCKS):

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004W80ESO/ref=pe_175190_21431760_3p_M3T1_ST1_dp_1

As I rounded the aftermarket 15 mm bolt that was overtorqued (by me....) on my 2007 Te 450....Reason...going back to the stocker..oh yeah..also purchased some Easy outs to remove the rounded bolt...lesson learned...follow torque recommendations and use blue loctite...
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You will be major dissappointed with that item, you need a 12mm. If you like big torque the stock axle nut is very thin and will not stand very much.
 
rancher1 said:
You will be major dissappointed with that item, you need a 12mm. If you like big torque the stock axle nut is very thin and will not stand very much.
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oh well..I've got a tool box that has empty space...sure it will come in handy one day ;) I'll get the replacement 15 mm nut then :thumbsup:
 
Our English system came from... um, England *cough*. We use both English and Metric systems in our shop, I like to think of it as being bi-lingual, as it is much harder to work with two systems, but compatible with the entire world instead of just most of it.

I love my British friends, but they're still a bit "Wonky". :D
 
I have english and metric stuff too. Boy is it fun trying to wrench in a 5/16 32 bolt into an 8mm 1 nut.
 
Tinken said:
Our English system came from... um, England *cough*. We use both English and Metric systems in our shop, I like to think of it as being bi-lingual, as it is much harder to work with two systems, but compatible with the entire world instead of just most of it.

I love my British friends, but they're still a bit "Wonky". :D
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But we moved with the times not stuck in some "we know best time warp" ;)
 
I'll throw my 3 cents too, I like the ZipTy version best, I still have the others on my ex 450.
The ZipTy version is basically a flush mount fastener, my Motosportz 15 mm has been hit by rocks and damaged. Dont get me wrong they are all good quality pieces, I am a backer of both of these brands, the OEM set up is silly, the ZipTy version just suits my ride through rocks habits better.
 
robertaccio said:
I'll throw my 3 cents too, I like the ZipTy version best, I still have the others on my ex 450.
The ZipTy version is basically a flush mount fastener, my Motosportz 15 mm has been hit by rocks and damaged. Dont get me wrong they are all good quality pieces, I am a backer of both of these brands, the OEM set up is silly, the ZipTy version just suits my ride through rocks habits better.
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Im sorry but why is the "OEM set up silly" ? It works fine, doesnt catch / get damaged etc....

There is nothing "silly" about a metric fastener on a metric motorcycle .
 
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