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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Skid Plate Bolts/Nuts Installation

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whistle lake

Husqvarna
C Class
I have a 2008 TE 450 and find removing and installing the skid plate very labor intensive. Looking in the forum it sounds like most have a threaded frame tab. Mine just has nuts and you need a very flexible wrench to be able to reach the nut behind the skid plate. Does anyone have an easy solution or something I cannot visualize.
 
The frame has little u-nuts that slide onto it. You can go to a local hardware store and get them for cheap. Thread should be 6x1.0. Is the whistle lake in you name in washington ?
 
Thanks, the u-bolts they have at the hardware store seem too light weight. I was hoping somebody could have tried tapping the frame etc.... The whistle lake my name is referring to is in Anacortes. Do you by chance belong to SMC?
 
The u bolts at the hardware store are the same as what the factory uses on the frame for the skidplate and should plenty durable. The frame where the skidplate mounts is very thin and not enough material for tapping but plenty of strength for the u nuts. Yes I do belong to SMC and I am familiar with whistle lake. If you want to talk more details send me a PM and I will call you or you can call me.
 
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