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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Swingarm linkage maintenance.

M

MitchTE450

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi fellow husky riders. I bought my 2009 te450 recently, it has 3300kms on it. So about 2000 miles.
Just wanting to know how difficult it will be for me to disassemble the swingarm linkage to check it all out and get it nicely greased up. I know I will need the tool to keep spring compressed to undo it all, but other than that, is it fairly straight forward?

Thanks guys.
 
All you need is some wrenches. The spring is on the shock and isn't going anywhere just cause you are unbolting the linkage.
 
Just take a picture of the linkage so you get the bolts etc. Back ok
Really clean out the old grease on the bearings and repack hard into the rollers.
Might need to scotch Brits the spacers.
Ps use marine waterproof grease as a preference
 
Thanks everyone. Sounds fairly straight forward hopefully. Any idea how many hours work, cause I haven't ridden for months (uni student) but have 6 weeks to go for a spin, and I'm itching to get in the seat but I know I should do it beforehand just to know she's all greased up.
 
MitchTE450 said:
Thanks everyone. Sounds fairly straight forward hopefully. Any idea how many hours work, cause I haven't ridden for months (uni student) but have 6 weeks to go for a spin, and I'm itching to get in the seat but I know I should do it beforehand just to know she's all greased up.
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Hopefully with 3300kms this isnt the first time the swingarm is being greased:-) and hopefully when you pull everything apart all you need is grease. For your first time doing it probably a couple hours. Just make sure you snap photos like ghte said, I had a bugger of a time sliding the swingarm back into place on my te250 and the shop manual didnt help because it wasnt clear. I ended up needing new bearings with only 50hrs of riding. I should have done it sooner, they dont grease them very well from factory.
 
linkage you only need basic wrenches and sockets - and probably a few hours if it's your first time. cleaning and greasing and figuring things out just takes a while first go around.

I recently greased each chassis point on my new txc310r - the bike had under 2 hours on it. it was surprising how little grease is there as new on these bikes.
 
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