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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

How do I install this?

M

mikebru

Husqvarna
AA Class
The PO of this bike included this threaded insert "thing". It fits into the last hole in the subframe and receives the bolt that holds on the rear of the side panel.

One of the photos shows the part numner. One photo shows the new insert next to the old insert. I was able to get in out of the subframe with the bolt stuck in it. Notice the mushrooming on the old insert. The last photo shows the subframe hole.

I assume there is a tool to install these to make it flare somehow so it ends up pressed against the edges of the hole. Is the tool available? Any homemade ideas?

I tried JB Weld but there isn't much contact surface. Drilling a hole to use a nut and bolt looks to be a tight squeeze.

Thanks

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I could be utterly wrong here . . . .

I think the knurled part is supposed to bite into the subframe, and the act of tightening a bolt in there mushrooms the insert so it can't come out. I assume that the new one is just a loose fit into the (now enlarged) hole?

You may be better to get someone to weld a suitable sized nut onto a thin sheet of steel (with a hole for a bolt), so the nut goes into the hole. Then just drill and pop rivet the steel to the subframe.

Mike
 
Thanks guys. Went to Harbor Freight and found one with inserts but it doesn't work with metric bolt; 1/4-20 only.

So, I'm off to buy a bolt now.
 
AlwynMike said:
I could be utterly wrong here . . . .

I think the knurled part is supposed to bite into the subframe, and the act of tightening a bolt in there mushrooms the insert so it can't come out. I assume that the new one is just a loose fit into the (now enlarged) hole?

You may be better to get someone to weld a suitable sized nut onto a thin sheet of steel (with a hole for a bolt), so the nut goes into the hole. Then just drill and pop rivet the steel to the subframe.

Mike
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I refer to my first line . . . . .

Utterly wrong again!! (As my wife tirelessly keeps telling me)
 
AlwynMike said:
I refer to my first line . . . . .

Utterly wrong again!! (As my wife tirelessly keeps telling me)
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Hey, don't be too hard on yourself, Nut-certs/Riv-nuts work pretty much as you described, just you need a tool to mushroom them out to fit & yes, the hole does look worn large now.
Your wife might be being a little harsh after all....:)
 
I just but a bolt in with a nut on it and tightened the nut against the rivnuts while holding the bolt head to tighten my rivnuts.... But my hole wasn't that loose and worn.
 
The rivnut came with the bike. The PO bought it I guess.

I didn't use it, though, since I didn't buy the rivnut tool.

I bought an insert tool with various size inserts from Harbor Freight.
 
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