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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Is it just me....?

firecrotch

firecrotch

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I am now on the third bolt that I completely stripped now on my wr300.
Go to put front wheel on...screwing in the large allen bolt that holds front axel on right at the end of all twisting i notice a 2 inch long perfect little metal shaving where I cross threaded and stripped the dang bolt out. I never feel like I am overwrenching. I already did this to by airbox boots. Is it me or are metals in general nowadays made of a low grade chedder cheeze?
 
Euro bikes seem to have a higher quality than their Japanese counterparts. in the interest of light weight the sizes are now generally smaller and require alot less torque. Cross threading well that is not a function of lesser metal. Get her dialed in but go easy on the fasteners.
 
After over five years of paying carefull attention, I too finally stripped out my oil check screw on my right side engine case cover.... had to strip the case cover of and Helicoil it... better now than it was new... but it was my own fault for stripping it in the first place....

T
 
The short answer is yes, the influx of CRAP Chinese knockoff bolts and bearings is getting out of control. And like Robert said above, the march for lighter weight bikes means real small fasteners that can only take a little toque before they give up. Ever wrench on a vintage bike? Bolts are huge and still work after 50 years of over tightening with vise grips. It's a throw away world it seems.
 
I have been using anti-sieze on bolts and screws, seems you can get a more accurate torque with out damaging the threads. Always did this on the boats, had to pull the heads on the v-6 for top three finish for tech inspection, could take it's toll on threads by season end.
GP
 
I did that on my Yamaha that comes stock with an aluminum nut. I found out a similar model yammy comes with a steel nut, went and got one and problem solved. This using proper torque specs per the shop manual. Wonder if you can find a steel nut for the husky.
 
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