• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1976 360 Front brake movement

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Alfie

Husqvarna
AA Class
When I put on the front brake I get very slight movement from the front brake anchor plate, only quarter of an an inch or so but it gives an anoying bump each time, first I thought the forks were lose but after inspection found the anchor movement where the brake cover slots into the fork, has anyone had this problem ? or should I just ignore it ?
Thanks for your time
Alfie
 
You could shim it if the movement is excessive. I don't think the banging is good for the brake cover. I've shimmed the rear brakes before.
 
I found the same problem during the restore of my 73 CR400. I didn't have the correct axle pieces, and the backing plate was not bottoming out on the fork tab. Once I got the right pieces the fitment became very solid. When I laced the wheel I centered the rim from there. Looks very good now and no slop. But, if you already have a working setup, shim it as mentioned above.
 
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