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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

82 430XC won't start

Update: Bike is completed and running great... remaining issues are a leaking clutch cover and oil is leaking out from around the countershaft....(only when you lean it to the right!):banghead:
What is the best method to cure the clutch cover leak?1) new gasket 2) new gasket and sealant, 3) no gasket, just sealant...??

Any ideas on the leak at the countershaft are appreciated!

Thanks,

Walt
 
get a new clutch cover gasket. i like to glue it to the cover, and grease the other side. that way when you pull off the cover you wont tear the gasket and it just stays on the cover..will be reusable many times that way!
as for the countershaft, you will have to remove the seal holder thats under the sprocket and install a new seal in the holder.
 
justintendo said:
get a new clutch cover gasket. i like to glue it to the cover, and grease the other side. that way when you pull off the cover you wont tear the gasket and it just stays on the cover..will be reusable many times that way!
as for the countershaft, you will have to remove the seal holder thats under the sprocket and install a new seal in the holder.
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Thanks justintendo, I've attached a photo of the parts diagram.... I assume you are talking about the part that I indicated with arrows. It describes it as a "seal", however as you can see , there is no part # indicated for this ..??? I'm thinking that it may be the came part as #4, but in the description page it indicates that only one of the #4 seals is used...?

Thanks for your help/ advice,

Walt
 

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Just: BTW the part that is currently on the bike appears to be just a plastic or teflon, (white) type ring that fits rather loosely around the countershaft. It obviously is not "sealing".... could be the problem?

Thanks again,

Walt
 
Walt Hastings said:
Just: BTW the part that is currently on the bike appears to be just a plastic or teflon, (white) type ring that fits rather loosely around the countershaft. It obviously is not "sealing".... could be the problem?

Thanks again,

Walt
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no, that part is proper and is only a spacer..in that diagram it looks like the sealing is done with the outer seal built into the bearing, a la 86-88 as they do not have a cover plate. the cover plate should have a seal pressed in it on the older primary kick bikes. either sealing method works but the cover plate is handy because a leak can be fixed there without splitting the cases. the later style have to be pressed apart to change out the bearing. might have to pull your sprocket and see what you have back there..
in that diagram in shows the crank having a seal pressed into the plate
 
Having the same issue with my 83 model 500cr. The piece behind the sprocket is just a spacer. I just finished reassembling after having the cases apart. During assembly I was puzzling over what was supposed to seal the countershaft. With the spacer installed, there is no room for a seal. My bearings are new and have the integral seal, but on first ride found the trans began leaking from the countershaft behind the sprocket... badly. It seems like there must be some type of seal, but the workshop manual and parts manuals do not show one. I will be removing the sprocket and spacer and having another look. Gladly hear any suggestions.
Steve
 
It's a sealed bearing that goes there no seal.
Do not try any type of sealant as it will pull the seal out of the bearing.
If it was a new sealed bearing that was replaced probably was not a full contact seal on the bearing.
I use a double sided sealed bearing.
Later George
 
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