• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
    WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

250-500cc Linkage bearing Q

shawbagga

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Is there any reason y the tie rod uses loose needle bearings as opposed to caged type needle/roller? Pain in the arse to regrease wen they all bloody fall out! Was thinkin mite swap em over
 
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Agree- All Balls seem like low quality. Certainly there is a cross reference for a bearing with a retainer, cage.
 
I will have to stick my neck out here an say I would go phosphor bronze in all my linkages over needles, there is more then enough leverage to overcome stiction.
Also once the needle cages get rusty then the bronze will be far smoother.
Ever wondered why your ground sleeves always wear in a rollers length thats because the needles don't go through a whole revolution when suspension moves sooooo they wear in grooves.
Its even more pronounced with caged needles rather than full compliment.
 
R talkin a sleeve that replaces the bearings n still use the inner bush/pin juicy? Interference fit?
 
Sort of yes, phosphor bronze bush replaces the needle rollers then std seals and then new unworn sleeves.
Better if you can get them made out of some hard stuff like en24t and get them ground to size after hear treating.
Throw a grease groove in the bronze bush whilst machining then your all good.
 
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