• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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Gearbox update?

scoott

scoott

Husqvarna
AA Class
So ,I am going through a 82 430 XC I picked up last year and find some rounded dogs and a bent shift fork. I go into my spare trannies and find a very clean 6-speed unit. Go to put it in and find that Husky had changed diameter of the shift collar and made a much beefier shift fork to fit.

Question is.....When did they do that, and do I have to change shift drum also to make it all fit?
Never realized they had updated gears and shift forks. Now that I see difference, I'll try to get them in all my bikes.
Tried changing forks and gearshafts only, and shafts bind up as cases come together, seems to be the input shaft.Pulling back apart today to try to see if I've got something off, but I don't think so.

Any experience/suggestions???

Thanks, Scott
 
I went on a fishing expidition for transmission gears this winter. Take the rods the forks slide on and put them on a flat surface and check for being bent. The rod with two forks on it is the only bent thing I have found. I am not sure what a collar is, presume it is the nub which goes into the slot in the shift drum. I used the rod which had only one on it from the donor engine as that had a bend rod as well. I took apart one 82 wr430 and a bunch of 88 stuff some 250 ones. I might check once I understand what you are describing. The problem gear is that third on the input shaft if it isn't worn dogs it is chips in the tooth faces. It is still available for approx $100 as it continued to be used int the older single cam seciton on here. With the primary gearing of an 1988 430 going to a 12 tooth sprocket on the front you can stay out of third quite a bit where I ride.
 
Found my issue. After splitting the cases 3 times, I compared gearsets and realized that I had reversed 1st gear on the countershaft. The gear was new enough that it didn't have any wear from the shift dog engagement.
Seems like 1983 is when they made the shift forks beefier and the corresponding gears bigger in diameter where the shift forks ride.
 
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