• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

What a difference a tooth makes!

TE 250 Girl

TE 250 Girl

Husqvarna
A Class
We changed my front sprocket from a 13 tooth to a 12 tooth and WOW!

Its like a whole new bike!:thumbsup: I wish he had done this from the begining.

Is adding more teeth to the rear too much? Or does it just get better!!?
 
you could try going up 2 or 3 tooths on the rear and use your 13 it will save a lot of chain wear as a 12 will wear out your chain/guides faster just try good luck
 
husky bom;108281 said:
you could try going up 2 or 3 tooths on the rear and use your 13 it will save a lot of chain wear as a 12 will wear out your chain/guides faster just try good luck
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+1....a 13 tooth is as low as I go on the front, going lower than that put's the chain into a tighter bind/bend. Just my .02
 
1 lower in front = 2 1/2 higher in the rear...

I think that's right. Going more on the rear is better for your chain but a little more money for the sprocket.

:cheers:
 
Does anybody have any proof that a 12 tooth sprocket causes extra wear? I've ran them for years without any problems...
 
I have only personal experience when I went one tooth down in the front, I believe the cog and chain went at about 800 Kms (teeth hooked and chain hadtoo much latteral stretch). Going back to stock at the front and up 2 teeth at the back was better, fractionally less lowering but better top speed (or lower revs). I do admit however that after about 1500 kms I tried the stock gearing and preffered it. I put that down to the bike freeing up and me getting better at reading the bike and adjusting/changing gears correctly.
 
12 tooth guy for years never had any abnormal wear. At the same ratio a smaller front will give better
acceleration and a larger rear will roll freer and carry speed better.
 
I once bought a 12T and was laughed out by 4 techs for doing it. Aparently its a no no as far as gearing math. :excuseme:
 
gestion01;108413 said:
I once bought a 12T and was laughed out by 4 techs for doing it. Aparently its a no no as far as gearing math. :excuseme:
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Maybe i should start giving back the trophies? :D
 
12th witouth problems. (and this.on a te510, which.is known as a chain eater). have 1900 km on bike and chain is still ok. i prefer to change the front sprocket because it allows you to go back in only a couple minutes if you have a faster trip.
 
Other than Moab once a year, I just ride ride single track/trails. With a connecter fire road here and there. At Mount St. Helens we have to ride pavement for some time to make a loop, but Im OK with the slower top speeds if its easier to ride the technical stuff (ie switchbacks).:thumbsup:

It does suffer a bit at higher speeds now.

A larger problem, is my chain "sliders(?)" are wearing out because my bike is lowered so far (4"). I wont let my boyfriend raise it up though.

He is going to look into an aftermarket type? It is supposed to wear better. Last a little longer I guess?:excuseme:
 
TE 250 Girl;108581 said:
A larger problem, is my chain "sliders(?)" are wearing out because my bike is lowered so far (4"). I wont let my boyfriend raise it up though.

He is going to look into an aftermarket type? It is supposed to wear better. Last a little longer I guess?:excuseme:
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There are aftermarket chain guides T.M. and BRP, but I have not seen aftermarket swingarm chain sliders (and looked). I am on my 2nd OEM one and am going to order another as a spare. (09TE450) I think the stock chain has sharp edges:excuseme: (never really had to replaced these on other bikes) again :excuseme:
 
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