• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 360WR Restore

Mine is a 76. It sat in that barn for thirteen years crying alone in the dark until rescued by a Hollywood grip who dragged it down to Long Beach. I found out he wanted to sell it and I bought it for 600 smackers. EVERYTHING was refurbished, every seal, every bushing, every bearing, etc., etc., etc. ...enjoy!

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By the way, rebuilding the forks is a breeze. I went to my local motorcycle swap meet at the Long Beach Veterans stadium and found two sets (four total) of seals that fit perfectly. The trick is two part. Getting the old seals out - I used a cold chisel to drive grooves in them to pull them away from the fork inner faces then I removed them with a thick ice pick.

The second issue is being able to remove the inside shaft and reinstalling them. I made a tool out of electrical conduit to do both jobs by cutting a slot in it to engage the top of the shaft inside the fork (look at the square cut in the photo) so you can screw the ellen wrench socket head screw in from the bottom of the fork tube...good luck... just don't be afraid to jump right in, its way easier than you think.

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I talked to John at Vintage Husky and got the specs. I needed and he answered other question I had. He is a great guy and I plan on buy the rest of the stuff I need from him. So if anyone else is doing a rebore Factory piston says .004 John says at least .0045. I've been taking pic. of the tear down so I am going to move to the restore forum with them. And just use this thread for Tec. Questions here.
 
my suggestion
if you have a clear question, start another thread. that way when a person uses the search function in the future, the answer might be had easier. i even try to word my title to aid this. might help someone in the future, instead of burying a good question and answer 3 pages deep in a thread..
 
Oh yes! I didn't recognize you! It is the engine that you rebuilt! And it is now in my garage on the Husky altar under the royal purple cloak of goodness!
 
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