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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Proper torque values for rear suspension and linkage

andyman

andyman

Husqvarna
AA Class
I need to know the PROPER torque values for the rear suspension and linkage. Given that I just stripped the lower shock bolt, either my tq wrench is way off or I mis-interpreted the manual. The service manual is pretty confusing on the values.

Here are the values that I used. PLEASE let me know if they are incorrect.

Swingarm 90.3 ft/lbs
Linkage 59ft/lbs
Upper and Lower Shock bolts 38.6 ft/lbs
 
The swingarm and top shock mount coincide with the values in my '04 owner's manual (I think the bottom mount is a different design on my bike). It's hard to second-guess suitable torque for a fastener without knowing it's grade (tensile strength). It's also impossible to know 100% whether the values in the manual are for dry or lubricated threads - a lubricated thread will pull tighter for a given torque than a dry thread (because the mating surfaces are slipperier) so the torque figure should be reduced mebbe 25% as a very rough rule of thumb for lubed fasteners.

I recently stripped my rear sussy to grease the bearings and have to admit (shame-faced) that I torqued all the fasteners "by feel".

Perhaps Husky customer care could shed some light on this?
 
How would one get a hold of Husky Customer Care? That's a good idea.

I sent them an e-mail or three back several months ago, and never heard back, so I suppose that e-mail is out. lol.
 
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