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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Linkage Bearings - fyi

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Wolf

Husqvarna
AA Class
I decided to redo the linkage bearings on my 09 txc 250. I had one heck of a time getting the old ones out. So I went to a friends shop to use his press. It took all of the 20 tons to get them out...upon inspection it turns out there was a shoulder in the center, we ended up pressing right through it. I would have never ever guessed that, and have never seen that before. How the heck are you supposed to press a bearing out with a shoulder in the center? Or maybe this was a bad casting? We got it all done, and there is now no longer a shoulder in the center between the bearings :)
 
Hello Wolf your suppost to use a bearing puller fot these type of bearings it's not uncommon this construction
 
I also was not aware of the inner shoulder, but I caught on to it before too long, ended up pressing/destroying the old bearings from the opposite sides/outward and buggered the inner shoulder pretty badly, but it's still there and works to keep the 2 bearings apart from each other.
 
Lol...Yup, you are all correct. This was a non issue on my KTMs - no linkage - and the YZs didn't have a shoulder...should have read the manual :)
 
I took the needle bearings out and then angled a smaller diameter deep well socket against the bearing lip from the opposite side after heating and struck it gently with a hammer.Took about 10 min.
 
What Blake said, I just did mine yesterday, I use the part from the blind bearing puller set I have and press from the opposite side. I just did a few on my 125 yesterday and it took less than 30 minutes start to finish.

Later,
 
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