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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Heres a fix for the rear factory mud flap

Sandgroper

Sandgroper

Husqvarna
AA Class
Go to your local honda dealer, ask for a 2009 CRF 450x flap and ta daaa.
Cheap and 10 times stronger. Just adjust the holes to suit with a 10mm drill bit to keep the Husky factory screws snug.
:))
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Good idea. I have used a piece of adheasive rubber ( often used under doors etc to reduce drafts) to good effect. It has stayed on for a year and is is good condition. It is about an eigth of an in thick and an inch wide and cut long enough to be wider than the groves in the plastic guard. I have attached it ti the swing arm.
 
AndrewS;84100 said:
What is the issue with the OEM piece? Is it just a durability thing?
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The stock ones have a couple spines moulded into the back of them that cut into the aluminum swingarm after a while. All I did was just trim the spines down with a knife and it more or less solved the problem. Not completely, but the wear has been greatly reduced.
 
Slowpoke is right though mine had a huge hole in it before it had a chance to wear the swingarm too much. The warp speeds these things are capable of :)) must have blown it back onto the rear tire while rding and chewed out a cricket ball size hole (on mine).

:)
 
Very good tip thanks! I have three Honda dealers near me and the closest Husky dealer is about 2 hrs away.
 
Slowpoke;84108 said:
The stock ones have a couple spines moulded into the back of them that cut into the aluminum swingarm after a while. All I did was just trim the spines down with a knife and it more or less solved the problem. Not completely, but the wear has been greatly reduced.
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That swing arm is soft metal .... I had the plastic covering for the rear break cylinder almost cut a hole through mine after it got bent over on it and was rubbing ...
 
Good tip..

Also, when you replace your chain you can cut the chain two links longer and move your wheel back enough to keep it from wearing through also.
 
I took her for 4 hrs of hell today and not one mark from the tire or swingarm was on the flap. Its stiff enough that it doesnt budge :)
 
ray_ray;84430 said:
That swing arm is soft metal .... I had the plastic covering for the rear break cylinder almost cut a hole through mine after it got bent over on it and was rubbing ...
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Ran into the same prob. My fix was bending back the cylinder(obvious) and applying one of those fine looking husky swing arm stickers. Covered the marks it made.
 
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