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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

77-78 swingarm bushing dilemma

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Houredout401

Husqvarna
AA Class
Perhaps someone has an answer, but I have searched high and low for the hardened steel pins for these swingarms and they do not exist. Same diameter as the '79+ bikes that are commonly available in kits, but they are shorter.

I'm thinking of taking the longer ones to a machine shop and having them chop them down, as I doubt that I could get a clean 90 degree edge with a handheld cutoff tool. Anyone see any problems with this approach?
 
Cut the sleave down for my 81 , no problems so far . Found some Honda linkage bearings that fit but sleave was a little long .
 
How much ya cutting off?
I've had success with cutting tubes using adjustable gas pipe cutter.
That's with a good blade in and enough to hold onto.
 
Call John at Vintage Husky in San Marcos, Ca (760) 744-8052. If they are available, he would know, or tell you where you can find them.
 
Per John they are only available used. No worries though, using a $6.95 abrasive blade on my mitre saw, I chopped it fairly easily, problem solved.
 
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