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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

order of assembly - Rear Swing Arm

C

carl johansson

Husqvarna
C Class
Ok you husky guys (and i don't mean that deraugitorily!)

2005 TE 450. Took the bike apart to send the motor to George. So just for fun I am putting it back together. I had the shock attached to the swingarm, and ran into considerable difficulty in putting it back on the bike. I ended up with putting the linkage back onto the shock mount first, followed by attaching the top of the spring to the frame. and finally the main bolt - pivot that goes through the engine.

I had a bit of wiggling and use of a rubber persuasion tool to put it all back together - is this the way you guys do it?

PS please forgive my ignorance - my other toy is a KTM - so I don't have a linkage!

Carl Johansson
Oh yah - subframe next - correct?
 
I'm just putting my '04 back together. :)

The way I've done it is attach the pullrod / dogbone (the U-shaped bit) to the frame first and loosely fit the bellcrank (the vaguely triangular bit) to it. Then fit the bellcrank to the swingarm, The hardest bit was getting the washer on the end of the bolt through the hole in the swingarm - I ended up holding the nut in a long reach socket and sticking the washer to it with a dab of grease so I could screw it together in one hit. Torque everything up. Shock goes on last. My shock isn't back from the sussy tuner yet so I made a "hardtail" out of some steel scrap to hold everything together (it'll fall off the stand otherwise!)

When you refit the subframe it may be a bit of a mare getting the intake boot back on the carb (unless you have four hands). Try loosely fitting either the top subframe bolt or the two bottom bolts and if possible enlist someone to swivel the subframe into position while you wriggle the boot onto the carb. Make sure your loom is routed properly while offering up the subframe.
 
It is straight forward, ttach the linkage to the swing arm, attach swing arm to the bike frame. Then attach the bottom of the shock to the linkage. No need to touch the sub frame. Then just put back the rear brake pedal, the rear brake line on the swing arm, the chain and rear wheel is the last bit.
 
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