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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC Stripped Seat Bolt Insert-please Help****************************************!

M

Mig66

Husqvarna
A Class
Was installing the seat on my 2016 Husky TE300 I overtightened it. When I went to remove the bolt, it just spins as the threaded insert seems to be stripped, and just spins. Anyone have this happen? Please help****************************************
 
They are called a Riv - nut .... there’s a few ways to tackle it , I’ll try to chime I later as I’m at work .... just google “ Spinning Riv - nut and I’m sure you’ll get a few hits .
 
Try lifting up on the seat while trying to put tension on the rivnut and with a cordless drill in reverse try to bump the bolt out ... why they did away with the Dzus fastener like on the old bikes is beyond me
 
I tried it all, nothing working. Gonna have to cut the seat pan out. Totally pisses me off! If anyone has a spare or take off seat for a 2016 TE300 send them my way> Thanks for all the suggestions fellas!
 
Spin the crap out of it with an impact until the plastic around the insert heats up and melts, then pull the bolt and insert out. JBweld the insert back into the seat pan. Not sure how successful that will be, but I did it with a shroud bolt insert on the gas tank on a KX one time, and that worked out great.:excuseme:
 
This happened to a friend of mine, told him to hacksaw it off.
He hasn't done anything yet.
I'm waiting to hear what works
 
Dirtdame said:
Spin the crap out of it with an impact until the plastic around the insert heats up and melts, then pull the bolt and insert out. JBweld the insert back into the seat pan. Not sure how successful that will be, but I did it with a shroud bolt insert on the gas tank on a KX one time, and that worked out great.:excuseme:
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...do this. I've done it a few times and it works well. The secret is to get the plastic hot enough to be pliable and gently pull out the bolt (and captive nut). Ensure you use anti-seize on the new bolt and don't overtighten or use loctite.
 
Ok, thank you.
I will pass on the info.
Is there a certain replacement nut to buy?
 
You should be able to undo the Nut easily from the bolt once it’s removed from the plastic. You can reuse the nut when you JB Weld it back in place.
 
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