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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Swing arm and shock bearing removal

B

BrettO

Husqvarna
AA Class
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Hi fellow Husky riders.
I have a few pics and some info on removal of swing arm and lower shock bearings.
Firstly, it is so easy to dismantle the swing arm from your bike so I can assure you I will be using marine grade grease and repacking every 6 months for now on.
Tools I had at home that I used are a tungsten bur grinder in a drill to start and take bearing edges off then I used a stone in the dremel tool to grind out a line along the bearing, there was some minor scaring but not bad at all. You will see a crack in the bearing form and then the bearing just pulls out. Just go easy with care.
On the swing arm its self there are 4 bearings to remove. By grinding remove the 2 outside ones and then I used a 17mm long socket and easily punched out the inner ones, the lower shock bearing comes out this way also.
It took around 3 hours and was a prick of a job. have never used a blind hole bearing puller but wish I had one as another poster on here suggested.
Hope this helps.
 
I'm trying to remember, but I believe when I realized that there was no shoulder in the swingarm that stops the bearing (after struggling to grind/break up the first bearing on one side), I just pounded both bearings out one side for the other side of the swingarm. Like you, I used a socket. First side took me a couple of hours, second side, a few minutes.

In contrast, IIRC, there ARE shoulders in the linkage, so the same method won't work there.

Note: This was a 2009 TE250. I don't know if the swingarm is different on the X-Lites.
 
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