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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Need advice!!

brick11

brick11

Husqvarna
AA Class
So I picked up an 08 te450 about a month ago and just recently bought some DOT tires in the process of making it street legal. After struggling to install the front tire and popping the tube on the rear I decided I would take the rear tire to a dealer and have it installed. Well today I took it out for a quick rest ride n upon approaching my first stop this happens to the rear rotor. Busted completely off the hub as well as one of the mounting spots which holds rotor in place! Needless to say I will need a new hub and possibly a rotor. But anyways do u gize think? Is this the dealers fault? Do they possibly remove the rotor when installing a tire? I never had the rotor off and before I had the tires changed I rode the bike much harder than I did on that test ride. Anyways I would like to hear some opinions. Do I demand they replace my rim or hub and possibly rotor? Or is this sumthin I will have to cover out of my pocket ?
 

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Unfortunately, the rear sprocket bolts were notorious for loosening. Wonder if the previous owner had ever loctited each sprocket bolt?
 
It's the rotor side that busted 268 fords not the sprocket. After having a wheel installed I was simply going on a short ride to c how I liked the tires. Came to a stop sign n applied pressure to front and rear brakes. The next thing I know I hear a pop n my rotor is off the rim. After getting home and further inspecting I noticed the spot on the hub that holds the rotor was cracked off as well. And thanks for the response joedirt. I saw that spot as well n I don't believe it was a dirt spot. It looked like a spot where metal caught as it was being ripped off but I will try n post sum better pics. Anyways I mainly need to know if there is any possibility the dealer might have removed the rotor to change the tire? Maybe for a machine that holds the tire in place or sumthin? I kno the rotor wasn't loose before I brought it to do the dealership and I don't see how the braking force could rip a chunk of metal off the hub unless the rotor was loose and therefore not making enough contact with the hub.
 
Looks like the wheel was dropped on the ground, it hit right on one of the rotor mounts, caused a stress fracture and then it failed while riding.
 
So should I take it to the dealer that put the tire on and demand they pay for repairs? Or is this something that's gonna b coming out of my pocket? And if that's the case how do I go about the repairs? Should I just buy a whole new rear rim or just the hub assembly? I also will need the bolts that hold the rotor in place as they all were lost when it broke. Any opinions greatly appreciated.
 
Your not going to be able to prove the dealer caused it to break.
Look in the classifieds here on CH for a wheel. More than likely your going to find a complete wheel/hub.
You can even post an add that you are looking for a wheel.
 
brick11 said:
So should I take it to the dealer that put the tire on and demand they pay for repairs? Or is this something that's gonna b coming out of my pocket? And if that's the case how do I go about the repairs? Should I just buy a whole new rear rim or just the hub assembly? I also will need the bolts that hold the rotor in place as they all were lost when it broke. Any opinions greatly appreciated.
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I cannot image any shop doing that - it does look like it was dropped to me as well. I don't see a chance they will cover the repair as it was fine when you picked it up.

You are going to want to find a part out wheel - hopefully you can find one. If you have never laced a wheel before, it is not a beginner friendly undertaking. Having a shop lace it will cost more than a complete wheel.

When you were messing with the wheel, did you keep it on a tire stand or at least a five gallon bucket? I have seen this happen where a guy was standing on the tire to break the bead and rolling the rotor around on the concrete while jumping on the rim. The rotor broke similar to that very soon after.
 
I didn't think any shop would b able to do something like that either bigmo. That's what really grinds my gears with all this. And wen I was working the the tire I always kept if sprocket side down, even while I was transporting it. Anyways I finally had time to get the tire off n get some better pics to c wat rele happened. Below r pics of the spot where the hub was ripped and the caliper bracket. As u can see from the pic there is a huge gouge in the bracket where the bolts were rubbing. Also, there is no fracture in the hub where it broke it just looked like that in the other pics from the shadow. Anyways I talked to my buddy who's been helping with the bike and his dad who's mechanic and knows a great deal about all motorcycle and this is what we came up with. The shop that had the rim had to of taken the rotor off. When they were done they put the bolts in but they were tightened down( at least not tight enough). 3 of the bolts had work themselves loose during my short ride where they then cut the huge slit in the caliper bracket and were eventually ripped off. By the time those 3 bolts were out there was only one holding the rotor in place. Therefore, when I came to the stop and applied the break it put so much force on the one spot in the hub as it was spinning and the hub bracket was simply ripped off. Don't ask me how I didn't realize this before/during my test ride because it blows my mind as well. I really think I need to bring this to the dealer that did it and try to get something out of them for my trouble and if nothing else at least let them know that the fu@&*# up really bad and it's now going to cost me hundreds of dollars that I don't have as I just used most of my available cash to purchase the bike at the end of January. At this point it's either the dealer pays for it or I won't be riding for a while...
 

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I get the prediciment you are in. As an outsider, I can say that this is why I do all of my own wrenching. I am in STL too and if you ever need help, please let me know.

You paid for a tire change and got one. I not a lawyer (thank God), but if you carried the wheel in you are out of luck. If you rolled the whole bike in, I think you may have a legit gripe.

All that being said, getting money from the shop will be extremely diffucult. If it was Gateway, maybe you can get parts at cost.

Either way this involves at a minimum small claims. Better yet is a lawyer. Both will consume time and money more than the cost of tne hub.
 
I just got off the phone with halls cycles in Springfield and will more than likely be purchasing a new wheel, rotor, and caliper mount from them. Pretty sad a simple tire change can turn into all this when the mechanics don't know what their doing. I will definitely be making a trip to MCGINLEY YAMAHA in highland Illinois to give them my 2 cents about this whole fiasco. Things might get heated lol. But anyways where r u from bigmo? I'm not actually from St. Louis but I'm located about 20 min from there in edwardsville Illinois. It's about 20 min from downtown right across the river.
 
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