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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

420 axc up n running again

silverstreakNZ

silverstreakNZ

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Has 40 mm forks and ohlins shocks .
Twin rear foot brake . Karlstrom brake plate
"AC" logo scratched in the side of the cylinder
Carb warmer and ignition breather from its previous exploits in Sweeden
500 ? Exhaust

Has had agip fork oil in the trans for a while from the previous owner . Fork oil is not equal to suspension ( shock ) fluid . This led to pitting in the face of teeth on the drive engagement gear .
Also 2 out of 3 small sprag bearings were demolished but still in place .
Replaced all 3 small bearings with Chinese ones and these had no drive although they worked on the bench .
Put one sweedish bearing back in and it goes fine
One spring on 3rd gear was snapped so 2 and 3 gear blended into one gear .
Tank could be blue but I like the white . Matches the guards etc
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I love the twin brake aye . Honestly thought it'd be a mind fk but it just works
I can jump from left shift bsa to right shift husky from race to race anyway .
You are used to down shifting into corners anyway . Can drag arse to the inside peg with either foot out . I only use it for vmx currently .
For trail riding id prolly rather a left hand read brake . As I've done plenty of mountain biking
 
I still have a new one on the bench . They are a slightly different shape . The quality actually looks fine . The work ok by hand . They tried to drive but couldn't pull away with the bike. Aa though the break away torque was about 5 nm .
I got them off the previous owner who is now in Sweeden .
He has some he's going to try in his 430
 
Nah it looks like a nice bearing .
It's not the wrong shape because poor quality . It's just different
This isn't the be all and end all of Chinese sprags . What I can say is I put 3 of these in first gear and they didn't transmit more torque than anything above idle
Chinese on left . Sweedish on right . Both spring groove towards top
The sweedish tooth does not fit in the Chinese cage 20180507_185659.jpg 20180507_185306.jpg
 
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