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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

There's stupid people, there's morons, there's idiots... then there's...

krieg

krieg

Husqvarna
Pro Class
...ME! I transcend ALL those titles. I am KING of the Morons... Grand Poobah of the Idiots. Stupid is my middle name.

Many of you know I put a Leo Vince slip-on on Cody's race bike. Many of you know we really liked the results. Well, this past weekend, Cody came off a practice track with the Leo "hanging" just above the swing arm! :banghead: A quick inspection revealed that the silencer mounting hardware had disappeared, allowing the Leo to flop around at its own will. Today I received the new replacement from my buds at Toy Tech. While installing the new silencer, I discovered that I used the WRONG hardware on the initial installation. The mounting nuts that ship with the Leo are LOCK NUTS. I somehow (in my old man, infinite wisdom) used the original Husky nuts (non-locking) when I installed the first Leo!!! :banghead::censored:

I'm such a dumbass! I wasn't even going to admit to this on the forum... BUT... if my stupidity can help someone else... well... it's worth it. :thumbsup::cheers:
 
I was shocked not to see a picture of myself when I opened the thread.

Yeah man... it happens. I commiserate with you.

(andy slips off to the garage to find his blue loctite and a couple wrenches....)
 
Better man than me Kreig, I have done some dumb things but I am not going to fess up.
 
It happens mate.

Yesterday, I had just given my new steering head bearing it's first tap onto the stem when I realised I had forgotten to fit the seal first. Fortunately I had a curved aluminium tyre lever that I could get behind the bearing and it came off with a couple of taps, but I felt such a noob.

I'm feeling a bit better now I've fessed up. :D
 
HA! That's the first thing that went through my mind! Your first wheel bearing change...taking your time...being oh so careful...tap 'em out, tap the new in... smile at your new found skill...and then, CRAP! Spacer still on the bench!
Keep the confessions coming. It could save someone else a headache.
 
Ever tryed unscrewing a pop rivot with a Philips Head screwdriver,then I put my glasses on
 
I finally dug into my compression valving on my bike ... I got one thing to say ... be very very careful with this shim stack once it is slide off the piston ... If my shims weren't all stuck together with the oil on them, I probably would have scattered them all across the floor ...

There is also a shim called a crossover shim ... it is about 1/4 the size of the shim on both sides of it ... it is very very easy to over look them when thumbing thru the stack :(

One way to prevent loosing the shim order is to remove the bolt and spring from the compression piston, place the shims back on to the bolt (in correct order), and then screw the bolt back into the piston .... this way you can inspect the shims without the chance of getting them out of order ...

PS -- there is a spacer on the front wheel axle that can be left off also when re-installing the axle ... not as critical as the wheel bearing spacer but if you have to pick UR bike back up and put it on a stand, but my bike don't like to be lifted off the ground :)
 

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Recently I had replaced an old M12 with a new M12 and realized after I had got it all mounted and was sliding the rear axle thru, I looked down and had the tire mounted the wrong direction. I told myself a thousand times before I started to make sure it was mounted correctly. Oh well, I needed the practice anyway.:busted:
 
HuskyMax;99320 said:
Recently I had replaced an old M12 with a new M12 and realized after I had got it all mounted and was sliding the rear axle thru, I looked down and had the tire mounted the wrong direction. I told myself a thousand times before I started to make sure it was mounted correctly. Oh well, I needed the practice anyway.:busted:
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This ain't what I call fun as I have pinched more than 1 tube before :(
 
glangston;99236 said:
We should have a rule.

Pics or it didn't happen. Always good to see the evidence.
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:thumbsup:I had to laugh reading these, as I think I've done most of them at one time or another.

What makes it worse is when you're aware of the possiblity of forgetting something (ie. leaving the spacer out etc), keep telling yourself to remember to install it and still make the mistake anyways.........:banghead:
 
Working on my cam chain, got the top end all buttoned up, and started doing the valves. Got to the last one, feeling pretty good about myself for finishing the cam with no drama, and then I dropped the feeler gauge into the Valve cover, and it went ALL the way in.

As if that weren't bad enough, when I started fishing for it, a spider crawled out of the valve cover after apparently making it home. After about 30 min I was able to get it with a small magnet, but I had a good time there trying to figure out if it'd be easier to take off the cover or suspend the bike upside down from the roof
 
krieg;99202 said:
...ME! I transcend ALL those titles. I am KING of the Morons... Grand Poobah of the Idiots. Stupid is my middle name.

Many of you know I put a Leo Vince slip-on on Cody's race bike. Many of you know we really liked the results. Well, this past weekend, Cody came off a practice track with the Leo "hanging" just above the swing arm! :banghead: A quick inspection revealed that the silencer mounting hardware had disappeared, allowing the Leo to flop around at its own will. Today I received the new replacement from my buds at Toy Tech. While installing the new silencer, I discovered that I used the WRONG hardware on the initial installation. The mounting nuts that ship with the Leo are LOCK NUTS. I somehow (in my old man, infinite wisdom) used the original Husky nuts (non-locking) when I installed the first Leo!!! :banghead::censored:

I'm such a dumbass! I wasn't even going to admit to this on the forum... BUT... if my stupidity can help someone else... well... it's worth it. :thumbsup::cheers:
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I cant remember the last time I put something on right the first time.
 
i got you beat,but its along story..
didnt have my husky ready to go for an event a couple months ago,so I dug into a spare gasgas I own,it needed a little bit of work,so i had the parts already on hand and figured I would prep it for the race 5 hours south of me,so I swap out a new top end,rebuild the swingarm bearings,linkage bearings,air filter and put in a new rear brake switch,took it up and down the street friday and all seemed well,loaded up and headed to NJ. well things started out bad right away three turns in I lost my rear brakes and almost killed myself into a tree at speed and had to go off the trail..got out to the street and figured I forgot to bleed out all the air when I put on the brake switch and I would fix that at the gas available 33 miles in... got another mile into the course and the bike had no top end power?? fouled plug I thought and put in a fresh one,wasnt the plug,figured I must have forgotten to tighten the powevalve linkage and i was sure it fell off..ok got another two miles into the race and the seat blew off the bike .... stopped and ran back to grab it..seems the prep wasnt going sooo well,three miles in,no brakes,no seat bolts,no top end power...still had 70 miles to race,rode sitting down to the gas available 33 miles in,put in seat bolts and bled brakes.. lost them again right away..but still carding a zero so far so not so bad...made it 55 miles to gas,looked at the brakes,broken rear line...figured at least the seats still on...no power and no rear brakes for the first half I might as well finish the race,had 40 miles to the finish from gas and almost made it,seeing the finish line wa only a mile down the road....ran out of gas and pushed to the finish/start area which was an observation check(thank god) leaned the bike against a tree and ran to the pit and grabbed my gas can fueled up and made it to the observation check... was a pretty tough ride for me..and my riding buddy wont let me prep bikes anymore,he does all the wrenching for four of my bikes and his own!!
 
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