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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

250-500cc 360 wxc crank rebuild

Darrel78

Darrel78

Husqvarna
AA Class
Fit a KTM 360 rod on my crank wheels tonight. Like the other thread mentioned everything is the same except for the length of the big end pin. The new pin was 0.167" shorter. That's about the thickness of two nickels. I centered the new pins with no issues. The picture shows how far the pin is recessed on the crank wheel. Thanks folks! The information presented in these forums is priceless!image.jpg image.jpg
 

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that is some very promising news, the tiny difference should not be an issue due to proper support across a large area
where did you buy the rod kit?
 
Found a guy on eBay with a NOS KTM rod assembly. Got it for $150 so it was a great deal. I had no issues truing up the wheels, very easy and straightforward job. I don't expect to have any problems. I'll post additional assembly pictures as I go along.
 
I got the same rod in mine still going strong, 2 premo i think you found a ktm rod off the interweb in the thread bout 360 rods.
Ktm 360 380 1997 i think off the too of my head.
 
juicypips said:
I got the same rod in mine still going strong, 2 premo i think you found a ktm rod off the interweb in the thread bout 360 rods.
Ktm 360 380 1997 i think off the too of my head.
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yeah but try to remember where you found it :D
 
Yeh just checked i left the email conversation with you looking lol.
I got mine from pistonbroke engineering in bristol.
 
what is the centerline to centerline of the big end and the small end of the Husqvarna 360 connecting rod???????
 
when you set the squish add 1mm to the initial stack as the rod is 1mm longer
but longer rods help with torque too
 
? Rods 1mm longer? Where you get that from premo?
Unless its not the same ktm one i got, had those lying ontop of one another and it was a spot on match, have my squish at .55 thou still big in my opinion.
But its half that of stock now goes like a train.
 
according to Mr Crankshaft, Kevin the 1996 KTM 360 rod is 132mm, the Husky 360 rod is 134mm and the 1997 on KTM 360 & 380 rod is 135mm
 
I'm afraid I couldn't measure my old one with and accuracy as the big end was worn badly. I'll check the squish as the assembly progresses and report what I find. I've got to order a couple more seals from Halls so my progress may be delayed a day or two. image.jpg
 
Laid mine right ontop in the shop believe me my replacment ktm rod was identical, no matter bikes running fine an im not gunna worry about it now. Lol
 
Great find! I searched on that part number to find my replacement on eBay. Seems new from KTM or Halls shows a $324 price.
 
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