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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Winter Maintenance Adivce

huskyista

huskyista

Husqvarna
AA Class
Soon alot of us will be doing winter bike maintenance. If you can't grease your rear shock linkage via zerk fittings and you haven't checked them in a couple of years, you should service and grease them. Last winter, I serviced my shock linkage on my 09 TE 250. I got my answer as to why I could't get the rear to settle down in the rocks. The linkage had 6 badly rusted and binding bearings. This was after only 3 years and about 3k miles. I replaced them and lubed them with Marine Grease (thick and blue in color). This grease is water proof and can protect metal even when water is present. It won't wash out and is what should be used on off road motorcycles. My bearings will get water in them, but I'll bet they don't rust again.
 
Just did mine and was able to clean everything up, grease and replace only the lower shock bearing, which was totally fried and basically non functioning. I was experiencing a lot of slop. All better now. Would be happy to help with any questions that people have along the way. Was a new procedure for me and fairly easy with access to a bearing press.
 
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