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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE449 lower shock needle bearing aftermarket option?

Mac

Mac

Husqvarna
A Class
Anyone ever tried getting hold of an aftermarket needle bearing for the lower shock bearing on a 449? Bearing and seals going to cost me $100 ($60+ for the bearing) here in Australia which is a bit steep. Plenty of info on linkage bearings for the 250 / 310 but can't find anything for the 449 / 511.
 
Just cleaned up the shell and revealed this is a Koyo brand bearing PN: 20BM2616

They have an office near my work so will check out on Monday. Part is listed on their website. What's the bet if I can get just 1 pc it won't be $60+ !!
 
Awesome.

Koyo bearing (same part number / brand as factory) $16 - Husky part $62

Radial seals $3 each - Husky part $18 each

By the way this is no reflection on any Husky dealer. I'm sure they would not be working on huge parts margins from the agent / manufacturer as nobody does these days.
 
Unfortunately no. Mine was in perfect condition (swapped shock with a mate and kept my small parts) so was no need to search this out. I would be assuming a finish ground and polished, case hardened 20mm steel sleeve would be the go but hard to find off the shelf. A 20mm piston wrist pin would be great but you won't find one with enough wall thickness to match the ID hole.
 
I was quoted about £40.00 for the bearing as the parts catalogue with 2 seals by a dealer, 8000 H6121 bearing and 8000 H6122 seals x2. I bought the bearing for about £5, but no centre, I think this is unique to Husky hence the price, as any inner sleeve could come with a variety of sizes for the centre hole.So I thought I was going to save a few quid but still ended up ordering from Husky.
While on the subject of bearings, if the bottom shock bearing has worn (probably from water ingress) check the swing arm/frame bearings as they were also worn on mine as well as rear wheel bearings, bit of an expensive time, all bought about by taking it apart to fit a 14T sprocket. Why don't Husky sell the wheel bearings as a kit like KTM, the bearings and seals were in stock, but no wheel spacers which I was recommended to change at the same time.
 
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