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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I think I've blown my gearbox

SMR570

SMR570

Husqvarna
I was riding to work on Friday and down changed to go around a round-a-bout and the rear wheel locked up. I grabbed a fistful of clutch and coasted around then pulled over. The engine was running fine, let the clutch out and it stalled. I fired it back up and eased clutch and got a horrible grinding noise. I couldn't find neutral or even really change gears. I rocked it and moved a few gears but no neutral. The chain is now tight and I mean tight (wasn't this tight before it happened) and when I push the bike with clutch pulled in horrible grinding noise from around the front cog area.

It is now in my local Dealership (again) getting looked at.

Any thoughts???
 
If the chain has gone tight then it's likely the output shaft bearing has failed. Going to be a complete motor split and rebuild if it has...

Dave
 
thanks guys. I have got my fingers crossed. I really don't want have to split the cases but such is life in the world of owning a bike!
 
10 months and $2,600 later. I will have my bike back next week. Ended up having the whole gear box rebuilt and a new billet clutch basket installed. Ordered a new seat and I will be back on the road as soon as my seat turns up (lost the old one in a house move, oops)

I am desperately searching for an exhaust heat sheild so I dont melt anymore pants. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Had to wait for parts to come from italy, then found that the clutch basket was r00ted, so had to wait even longer for that. Over $1500 in parts. I got my new headlights, indicators and brake light ready to go in and I am going to do the underseat exhaust myself. Then probably replace the original air filter box with a k&n pod filter straight onto the carby.

Can't wait to get it back on the road.
 
Its usually much quicker and cheaper to buy the parts direct from either the US or UK. The prices our local Husky dealer charges are eyewatering! $40.00 for 1 engine bolt with nut.
 
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