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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Short Chain?

danbartol

danbartol

Husqvarna
AA Class
Is it just me or is the stock chain just a tad short?

It seems like it should be a couple of links longer.

With the proper slack in the chain the tire is quite close to the front of the swing arm and slightly rubbing on the mud guard. I'm concerned that any mud or rocks could jam the tire in the swing-arm.

2010 TE 510
 
You hit the nail on the head.. You will rub a hole in the mud guard if you don't move the wheel back.
 
Mine, 09TE450, seemed real close too- once adjusted properly. But I just ran it and haven't had an issue- I did however trim the back of the mud guard -trimmed the groves off the back that rub on the swingarm- this brought the mud flap closer to the front and away from the tire. Mine does have clearence - it depends on tires somewhat too. However I think the wind at speed can push the mudflap into the tire slightly. No Big deal. NO wear on mine. I will be switching to a Michelin s12 130 or 120 from the 140 which will increase the clearence as well.
 
I did install a CRF450X rigid mudflap, but I still think it's tight. I'm tempted to put a new longer chain on, but it's kind of a waste of money to do so so soon.
 
I installed a CRF450X mud-flap since it is a rigid piece versus the floppy rubber OEM Husky one.

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The fit is perfect and requires only relocating the left hole.

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I also trimmed a bit of the mud-flap to allow it to sit flush w/ the swing arm. There is a section of the upper chain guide which interferes whit the mud flap.

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I feel like the OEM chain is too short and should be a couple of links longer to allow for more clearance between the tire and the swing arm. It's pretty tight in there and there is tons of adjustment room to the rear.

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Get the stock chain off for aggressive tires ie. Dunlpop 606 plus, there is still alot of adjustment and you wont ruin your mud flap.
 
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