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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

All 2st Linkage isn't super tough!

tommytwostroke

tommytwostroke

Husqvarna
AA Class
Just talked myself into repacking the bearings and what not throughout the rear linkage this afternoon and TWO things that dampened my spirits, a tad, stuck out immediately; one I knew better, the lack of grease used from factory had seized a couple needle bearing assemblys completely. No big deal I'll fix them. Not to be! It seems a small hit from a non sharp object ovalized one side of the opening where the connecting linkage sticks out between the rear wheel and the skid plate. Not putting to much thought into it but it appears as though I will not be able to remove the bearing assembly unless I can knock it out the other side.

I don't remember the aluminum in the linkage being as soft on my YZ as this on my 2010 WR! Oh well. I geuss I will re-pack and use it as long as I can. Lucky for me it didn't ovalize the bearing assembly. Anyone know the price of the three hole connecting link?

So be aware of what you straddle between the skid plate and rear tire. Duh!
 
the dog bone is around a 100 bux with bearings... or it was last year when I bought one.
 
You could watch eBay for one, then grab the bearings from a bearing shop for a good price
 
Type the bearing dimensions in the ebay search box, i get all my linkage/swingarm bearings real cheap this way.
 
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