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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My new axle tool

BentAero

BentAero

Husqvarna
A Class
Bought this $18. Jeff Fredette/Moose/MSR axle tool and modified it. I cut off the small end which had no Husky value, and welded in a small piece of 12mm hex wrench which will fit the front axle. The other end is 27mm which fits the rear axle.

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Looks good. One advantage to going with the replacement axle nuts available is you can turn it with a crescent, vise-grips or 15mm if you don't have your tool. A bolt and vise-grips will work in a pinch :D
 
Kelly sells, through www.motosportz.com an Axle wrench that fits the custom 15mm axle nut several people (including him) make (either aluminum or stainless steel) and the 27mm rear nut
$14.95

Another way to go in an emergency with the 12 mm hex is using two 6mm items jammed in. Saw it work once anyway in Mexico..
 
I have found the axle wrench that comes with the KTM works just the same on my 450TXC. The front axle was switched out with the ZIP-TY magnetic nut in about 10 seconds. looks really good too.

Come on Husky, no axle wrench give away when purchasing a new scoot?
 
glangston;58427 said:
Kelly sells, through www.motosportz.com
Another way to go in an emergency with the 12 mm hex is using two 6mm items jammed in. Saw it work once anyway in Mexico..
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I tried this last night but couldn't get it to work. I guess it takes "skills" or that juice you get when stranded in the middle of nowwhere, Mexico.
 
glangston;58427 said:
Another way to go in an emergency with the 12 mm hex is using two 6mm items jammed in. Saw it work once anyway in Mexico..
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I SEEN IT! I was there. It's not that difficult, but George was there also, and he makes the 15mm replacement and was just shaking his head when it happened.

-Blake
 
Funny thing my 06 TE 450 came with a 27 mm/15mm spanner with the bike. When I replaced the stock hex nut with a 15mm nut supplied by R&D Husky it was a dream outcome.
 
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