• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

FE/FC Left footpeg

Xriderdown

Xriderdown

Husqvarna
AA Class
A friend of mine sent me a pic of his left footpeg almost coming off after a ride the other day. So I immediately looked at mine and saw it could potentially have the same problem during a ride if I didn't fix something. The problem on both of our bikes is the kickstand rubbing against the clevis pin while in the down position. It appears to put enough pressure on the pin over time and eventually breaks the cotter pin causing the clevis pin to work it's way out. That's a scary thought!!

The fix:
Grind 1/16 to 1/8 off the kickstand and kickstand return spring bracket where they both touch the end of the footpeg clevis pin. And use a thinner washer behind the cotter pin. In my case there is still a slight contact between these pieces, but not enough to cause pressure against the cotter pin causing it to break. Important Note: Keep a close eye on it to make sure this fix holds.
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I also ground a little off the end of the clevis pin
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These are the results of the ever so slight but important safety fix

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My FX was set up turned around from the dealer. I questioned it because I thought it looked backwards. Now I don't notice it and it's definitely the correct way for install.
 
I thought about that. Then I thought it looked wrong too. I also thought the pin should probably be facing downward for safety reasons. I guess it may not matter if the pin can work it's way up and out. Oh well, I feel better about the pin facing down and I won't have to think about it anymore.
 
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