• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

All 2st Wobbly front rim

Brian Scott

Brian Scott

Husqvarna
AA Class
The front oem excel rim on my '11 wr300 has a nasty side-to-side wobble to it in one location; about 1/8 to 1/4 inch. Can this be fixed? If so, who can do this work? I'm in the Seattle area. I called my local bike shop and they said they couldn't do it. Maybe time for a new rim and use the wobbly one as a backup?

Thanks
 
I'm far from an expert but I've had luck tightening the spoke opposite the wobble and slightly loosening the side with the wobble to get it true again.You may have to loosen/tighten 4,5 or more spokes on each side depending on how bad it is.
Don't rush,take your time.
 
You can true a wheel. Pretty straight forward if its not too bad and it doesn't sound like yours is. Like Idacurt said. Start at by figuring out the center of the bulge. loosen the spoke that pulls on that side and tighten the spoke that pulls to the opposite side. You will need to do this for more than just one spoke. Again, maybe 4-5 on each side, both forward and aft of the wobble. loosen and tighten. And more tension towards the main area. That will get you started. You can make a makeshift guide by using a long zip tie on your forks and lining it up with the wheel. trim it off right where the bulge or wobble peaks off. Use that as a guide to keeping it straight. That may not make a ton of sense, so feel free to PM me or ask question.
 
Anybody with a truing stand should be able to help. If the rim is dented then it will keep wobbling no matter what. I got a nearly new rim and spokes for $100 from another member here. My hub is fine, so at some point swap the rim and spokes and get it trued...or buy a cheap truing stand. :cheers:
 
That looks easy enough. I'll give it shot fellas. Thanks for the tip and video link. I like the zip tie idea.
 
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