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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Go away sprocket!

Caiman

Caiman

Senior Vice Procrastinator
I recently bought a 3rd hand 5" wheel a while ago and ordered a new hub a couple of weeks ago to replace the (possibly) 10 year old hub that came with it, I believe it's off an 01-04 Husky, hence the need for the spacer. Pity the new hub didn't turn up last week.

Mid ride yesterday carving up a twisty mountain road I heard a strange noise, no where to pull over until I reached the top off the mountain I continued on at a lower pace until a mates yelling got too much and a area appeared where I could pull over. The bike didn't seem to handle adversly, still had drive so I wasn't sure what it was. Fearing it was the Suter clutch I installed the day before coming loose and going boom, I checked over the engine when my mates told me to look at the rear wheel...

The initial damage;
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Worse still the collateral damage :( a 5mm deep groove in the swingarm :eek:

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Time to find a skilled welder! Unless someone has a swingarm they can donate :P
 
Seen that far to many times on huskys. Don't know why that happens so frequently on these bikes. Loc-tite the crap out of them and check them every ride.
 
I did a 120 mile ISED on a friends TE510 and when pushing it into impound at the end of the day looked down after hearing funny noises to find the sprocket hanging by one loose bolt**************************************** Scary
 
Too bad here but a welder should be able to fix that I'd guess ...

You do see that the bolt shown here is not seated correctly in the sprocket, right? The shoulders of the bolt must go flush against the sprocket hole or something is mis-aligned ... If it is mis-aligned, something is gonna come apart maybe ...

Anytime you are tightening almost anything that has more than one bolt or nut holding it in place, you need to tighten up the bolts (or nuts) in a circular or a back-and-forth fashion ... Meaning first, you tighten up the bolts (or nuts) up till they are seated correctly on the sprocket as in this case AND do not over tighten them at this point ... Next go around each bolt or nut and tighten it slightly again ... This seats the sprocket up firmly and correctly against the hub ... As each bolt is tighten, it pulls the sprocket slightly on the hub and will actually loosen (or tighten) the other bolts opposite where you are working ...

Continue to go around the hub slightly tightening one bolt at a time till all the bolts are very tight... You'll end up maybe moving each nut 1/4 turn or less on your last pass around all the bolts ... After this, it will not come loose unless you don't have the strength to tighten up the bolt. Those nuts have a lock on them already but locite is good also here ..

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ray_ray said:
You do see that the bolt shown here is not seated correctly in the sprocket, right?
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Any instruction on how to tie my shoes? I'm not daft. The photos were taken after loading the bike on the trailer and getting it home. None of the bolts are tight at this point as they'd been removed to check the hub then just done up finger tight so I can wheel the bike around.
 
Caiman said:
Any instruction on how to tie my shoes? I'm not daft. The photos were taken after loading the bike on the trailer and getting it home. None of the bolts are tight at this point as they'd been removed to check the hub then just done up finger tight so I can wheel the bike around.
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Interesting ...

Just trying to help ... You're the one posting a totally screwed up, perfecting good bike, that poor workman ship probably caused ... I'm sure you will figure it out ...

You probably know this already also but your SA suggests differently: "Check your work down the road shortly to ensure nothing comes loose".
 
What year hub is that?..... I just ordered a Ironman sprocket for my 2012 TE 511 and they warned me the sprocket bolts they are including with the package might not be long enouph and told me one of his customers had informed him husky must have thickend that part of the hub..... There is a groove that is supose to keep the sprocket somewhat aligned if the bolts were to allow sprocket movement I thought , atleast on mine there is....

Edit; 01-04 hub gotchya, Hope you got the 2012 hub
 
I feel your pain; pretty much had the same thing happen to me this Dominion Day long weekend on my 630, mine barely got into the swingarm though (~0.030"). I borrowed 4 sprocket bolts out of my 449 to effect a repair and did the old paint marker trick on the front and back so it is quick and easy to double check:

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Any husky dealer can get 'em, they're in the special parts catalogue ~$100-110ish.
 
Yikes! Seems like there isn't a bolt a husky won't try to shed. I gotta say that of all the bikes I've owned, including my Harley, I have never seen a bike that hates it's nuts and bolts as much add my TE. Now I see they hate their sprockets too!

Let us know how your swingarm fairs after adding some metal back on it.
 
THE SPROCKET BOLTS FROM A 2ST AND 4ST HUBS ARE NOT INTERCHAGEABLE!

If you swap a 2st style narrow hub on a new 4st and use the 4st bolts they will be too long and the hub will come apart no matter how tight you make the bolts.
 
There are three bolt lengths: Short for the 250-300s, med for pre 11 4sts and 125, and long for 11+ (Ithink) 4 st. The only place I have found the long 28mm bolts is from Husky.
 
Huskynoobee said:
Let us know how your swingarm fairs after adding some metal back on it.
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Will do, already off the bike and sent off to a friend of a friend who's fixed the swinger off a 'berg that did the same thing.

Still awaiting the new OEM 2011 SMr hub and ancillaries to come. In the mean time if I get really bored I have my 4.25" stock rim to mess around with assuming my ghetto tubeless conversion works :)
 
this is a common problem with any bike that sees blacktop mileage, and don't have rubber dampeners in the hub for the sprockets.

there is a company working on making a sprocket with dampeners built in, some here were trying them.

you need to look at the sprocket bolts often. I like the idea of the paint marks.
 
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