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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

125-200cc WR 300 Triple clamps

M

Marvin Fredrich

Husqvarna
C Class
I'm replacing my steering head bearings on my WR300 and I finished removing the nut on the top of the upper clamps. The upper clamp is supposed to lift off revealing the locking nut to remove the bottom clamps. My question is, the upper clamps are not lifting off should I beat on them with a rubber mallet? Will this be the correct approach to removing them? The handlebars are off and the forks have been removed already.

Please help


Marvin
 
Not sure what you are describing. The uppers usually have a locknut that is over the second nut that takes a spanner wrench to loosen or tighten. Once those two are removed, the bottom set and steering stem should drop out of the top set and frame neck with a light tap from a rubber mallet.
 
Dirtdame said:
Not sure what you are describing. The uppers usually have a locknut that is over the second nut that takes a spanner wrench to loosen or tighten. Once those two are removed, the bottom set and steering stem should drop out of the top set and frame neck with a light tap from a rubber mallet.
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My question may not have been stated too clear, lol. Currently my problem is, I can't remove the upper clamps to get at the nut that takes the spanner wrench. Videos show that once you remove the first nut holding down the upper clamps, that the upper clamps should just lift off revealing the secound nut that uses the spanner wrench. However my upper clamps are not lifting off.
 
Then tap from underneath with a rubber mallet and they will pop loose. I think I explained it wrong.:doh:

Sorry, long week. Tired.
 
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