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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

seized clutch centre nut

david gross

david gross

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi Guys and girls, My sons KTM SX150 need an engine rebuild but i have found it impossible to remove the clutch basket centre nut, Any advise suggestions.
 
use a proper clutch basket lock up tool or make one or with care get it wedge with something. heat the nut--be sure to bend the lock washer tabs down... use an air or electric impact driver to get the nut off.
 
Thanks for the advice, I have the proper holding tool just tryed heating it and using an air driver still no luck.
 
I don't know for sure but is it a right hand thread or left hand thread? A closer look could tell you which direction the thread goes.

I remember the old Chrysler, dodge and Plymouth cars/trucks plus the old jeeps having left hand threads on one side on the lug nuts. Then came the husqvarnas on the ignition side.
 
Thanks for your input guys according to the local KTM shop its a R/H, Tried everything Took it to a mates who has a big compressor and a H/Duty snap on rattle gun still nothing but managed to crack the clutch basket , So finally cut the nut as close as possible to the shaft as possible and the nut split , Looks to have been put on with some sort of thread locking compound. Why would you do that ?.
 
This stuff was sort of orange in colour. Have never found it necessary to use anty thread lock just proper torque and new tab washer. Thanks again for all your input .
 
I been to loctite school. There are so many different types of loctite. Thread locker, removable thread locker, permanent thread locker, cylindrical loctite, hydraulic loctite.

It's just an awareness to use the correct loctite for the right application.

Working for an engineering group does have its perks. They educated me in the many ways of engineering. Why things are designed the way they are. I brought the basic mechanics of machine building and assembly to the table. Of course I left and took there education with me. Lol
 
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