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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Italian assembly, post your goofs here!

D

deepcdiver

Husqvarna
AA Class
Ok, so we all know to go over a new bike and tighten bolts etc. Also about the poor soul whose rear sprocket came off halfway home causing a lot of damage but fortunately no injury. I found half my cotter pins with only one leg barely bent a few degrees away from straight. Today I found a more egregious example, almost reaching "Friday Bike" eligibility.

Peering under the front fender I thought "Aha!" as I spotted a bolt no where near torqued down. Reached in with an 8mm socket...but could NOT tighten it! So, I decided maybe it was cross-threaded and pulled it. Nope. Inserted again...same deal, could not get within a 1/4" of being flush....hmmm. Figured some Friday afternoon brain fade led someone to grab a bolt too long. So I pulled it's twin...no, same exact length.

I believe the casting in the lower fork brace was not tapped all the way, the only thing I can think of. So, hopefully I have only a Friday fork tree and a Tuesday bike :) The worker had even added a LOT of lube of some kind then given up (the sister bolt was totally dry). As the bolt really does not need 3/4"+ of threads to hold the plastic front fender on, I will replace it with a bolt 1/4" shorter.

Who has similar goofs?

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Front fender bolt? The final blame is on the dealer.... Fender was off, wrapped up in the crate and assembly guy at dealer gave you that job.
 
On my 2011 Sm630 with less than 200 miles, my ignition switch fell off and was sitting down in between the triples. Somehow the 8 x 1.25mm bolt fell out.
 
Just found out after a WRT ride that one of my subframe bolts ran away. The big bolt that holds the tank down in the front leaped for freedom a couple weeks ago. Oh and the bolts that hold the black plastic plate holder that breaks on the first ride off road dissappeared. My new favorite evening ritual is the husky bolt check drill. :banghead:

I agree that some/most of the blame is on the dealer. My experience was sign here, sign here, give me the money, and the door is that way. Enjoy your new husky. :)
 
Only thing I've had work loose was the longer of the two front sprocket cover bolts. Just disappeared one day.... Everything else has been fine, except for one bolt that spins in the gas tank, But I don't even bother removing the fairings to pull the tank anymore anyway, just take out the radiator and frame bolts.
 
Norman Foley said:
Front fender bolt? The final blame is on the dealer.... Fender was off, wrapped up in the crate and assembly guy at dealer gave you that job.
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Wow, I will mention it next time I see him. He made a point of saying they had retourqued the ignition and sprocket bolts and spent over a half hour going over the bike with me, setting the sag etc.
 
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