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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

T

totenstar

Husqvarna
B Class
2008 TE 450
Yesterday I slammed the bike hard on a ledge. I was ok and the bike was fine except the forks were noticably out of alignment. I got home stripped down the front end and discovered I had twisted the lower on the triple clamp. Problem is I'm suppossed to leave on Friday for a ~1000 mile 5 day trail ride in colorado.

Anyone know where i could go to get a lower or triple clamp for this bike?
Any aftermarket suggestions or perhaps whole swaps (go to kyb's etc.)

I found a triple for a 2008 510, but it doesn't have a part number and I don't know how to verify if it will work or not.

Keep in mind I'll be overnighting anything you suggest.

I do appreciate it.
 
thank you! so anything (125, 450, 510) that's not an SM and says 50mm should work? I'm seeing parts from 06,08, and 09 bikes say 50mm.
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There are a couple different offsets in triple clamps also. So if you can source a set from a TE that would be best.
 
Hope you get it sorted out. Is the lower triple noticeable twisted? How did you know it was twisted? I had replaced bent bars a while back and after putting new bars on it still seems the alignment is just a tad out of whack. Tried loosening everything up and then re tightening but I still think something is just a little bit off. How did you know yours was twisted?
 
benwiggin2 said:
Hope you get it sorted out. Is the lower triple noticeable twisted? How did you know it was twisted? I had replaced bent bars a while back and after putting new bars on it still seems the alignment is just a tad out of whack. Tried loosening everything up and then re tightening but I still think something is just a little bit off. How did you know yours was twisted?
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I was hoping it was that. I remvoed the forks and clamp assy. then I placed each part on an engineering table at work. The lower wobbles like a table with a short leg. it's easily visible to the eye as well.
 
totenstar said:
I was hoping it was that. I remvoed the forks and clamp assy. then I placed each part on an engineering table at work. The lower wobbles like a table with a short leg. it's easily visible to the eye as well.
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Problem seems to be resolved. Hall's Cycles's will be sending me the triple from a wr125. He said it should fit, but it will quicken the steering. I'll take that over not riding.
Very big thanks to Clay at 7602 Racing. I wouldn't have gotten this without his help. I'll post the final work hopefully tomorrow evening when I've got the bike put back together.
 
The thrill of victory! You can dial in the difference in steering response with fork slider height I bet.
 
Glad you got some parts coming. Hope your ride goes well some good riding up there near Buena Vista.
 
Many of us would consider a steeper offset to be an upgrade, Congrats! and I hope your trip goes well and you have a blast.
 
HUSKYnXJnWI said:
Many of us would consider a steeper offset to be an upgrade, Congrats! and I hope your trip goes well and you have a blast.
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Well I finally got it all together about 2 am this morning. The part worked perfect, but I didn't. I have never taken the front end down before or pressed bearings (using a car jack and broken pipe) or broke both pinch bolts at once on the left side....anyway, great learnings and a lot of help. Thanks and we are off to Colorado.

Thank you Jeff at Halls Cycles!
 
Its all part of the adventure, breaking something just before you go away, then its a mad rush to get your bike fixed ready to break it again. I am glad you got it sorted in the end mate and its good to hear about good customer service for a change.

Gav
 
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