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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

125-200cc Linkage bearings removal.

Hemlin

Hemlin

Husqvarna
B Class
Recently discovered my lower suspention bearing was broken. So took swingarm off, and of course, my linkage was in pretty bad shape as well. Bought an "All balls" linkage bearing kit, opened a bottle of beer and got work :D. Husky linkage is, as you all probably allready know, not a funny thing to remove and that because of that "bridge" between the bushings so you just can´t squeeze them out in one direction. But I found a simple way to do it without any special tools. It went quick and without cursing.;) This is how I did it.

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Here it is, the notorious linkage!



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First I took apart the actual bearing , leaving just an empty shell.

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Like so. Just a an empty shell.

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Then I took an ordinary washer and grinded of the edges..
 
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Then I pressed it down the bearing (a gently tap with a hammer might help)

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And it´s in!

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And then simply press it out!
 
Thanks alot Hemlin, Great pictures, its all universal and it's all good. The 2 flats on the washer is an old trick. If the washer is the right size to begin with. Thanks for sharing some of your knowledge. Some don't like to share their trade secrets and this is a simple fix to an all around problem. Thanks, this is especially useful when the bearings are paired together as in this application making this very good information.
 
I wish I had of known this for when I did mine:banghead:
Although mine were completely dried & seized.

I had to end up putting the linkage in the Oven after it had been sprayed with WD 40 to try free it up a little and even then with a huge blind bearing puller it was an effort to get the bearings out.
I will re-grease my bearings on a regular basis now.

It sucks though the AllBalls bearing kit comes with those loose bearings held in with grease and not the caged type of OEM.
 
Most bearing shops do HK series Bearings, for Example HK2030 is what you would need. You can get the bearings sizes from the parts book or line. This was the way i did my rear linkage
 
Thanks for the info. If you didn't know that ridge was in there you could press on the bearing all day and still wonder wtf is going on haha.
 
Clever! Often the bearing shell just fractures, but your method seems to distribute the force well enough to avoid that.

Cageless linkage bearings are kinda the norm.

HK bearings are high-quality german bearings and can be found on amazon.
 
Hi Guys,

I had a problem with swingarm bearings and ended up using a car jack between two retaining walls (about 700mm apart ) and a paint stripper gun to warm / heat the area. Worked a treat.
 
Super great info to know! Had my linkage apart a while back for a clean and pack and was thinking next time I would replace the bearings. I'll be glad you shared this technique when the time comes.
 
Phaeton said:
Thanks for the info. If you didn't know that ridge was in there you could press on the bearing all day and still wonder wtf is going on haha.
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Your 2007 WR 250 in your sig line does not have the ridge so you can just press away.
 
Hemlin said:
Recently discovered my lower suspention bearing was broken. So took swingarm off, and of course, my linkage was in pretty bad shape as well. Bought an "All balls" linkage bearing kit, opened a bottle of beer and got work :D. Husky linkage is, as you all probably allready know, not a funny thing to remove and that because of that "bridge" between the bushings so you just can´t squeeze them out in one direction. But I found a simple way to do it without any special tools. It went quick and without cursing.;) This is how I did it.

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Here it is, the notorious linkage!



View attachment 34188
First I took apart the actual bearing , leaving just an empty shell.

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Like so. Just a an empty shell.

View attachment 34191
Then I took an ordinary washer and grinded of the edges..
Click to expand...
What model year is your WR 125?
 
so why dont one of us geniuses just machine out that pesky ridge and use a full width bearing
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Troy Deck, below is a copy of another post. So am I allowed to call myself a genius?

I machined out those annoying shoulders in the linkage so in future if needed I can press the bearings straight out. I didn't do it on the forked arm of the linkage as it would leave only 2mm of material.

Fitted grease nipples slightly different from Picklito, and also in the forked arm.

Used the HK2016-AS1 bearing in the lower fork.

I didn't put grease nipples on the swing arm because I couldn't find a decent spot to access them or to prevent them breaking during use. Instead I butted up the 2 bearings together then added a seal to the outer side of both outside bearings. A bit of extra insurance against those small seals on the needle bearings.

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:cheers:
 
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