• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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'82 WR430 frame and swing arm wanted.

demac65

demac65

Husqvarna
I have a WR430 engine in a CR430 frame - my legs are too short to enjoy the bike. Any help locating a frame that suits me would be appreciated. I will swap the CR frame if needed, otherwise would like to buy.
 
I think lowering the bike would be accomplished by different spindles inside the forks and some changes to the insides of the shock absorbers. The frame differs in tubes under the engine, near where a tail light would be and how the brake backing plate attaches. Maybe the shock location on the swingarm or it's overall length is different not sure off hand. Where are you located?
 
Michel Dufayard said:
The swinging arm is longer on XC and CR, no ?
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I do not know for that model but edit posts a lot. For someone local that takes the responsibility of identifying the parts I probably have a wr swingarm for that year in the event they differ. Any idea which swingarm the 420 axc would have? The ae has the shock pockets on top of the swingarm.
 
fran...k. said:
I think lowering the bike would be accomplished by different spindles inside the forks and some changes to the insides of the shock absorbers. The frame differs in tubes under the engine, near where a tail light would be and how the brake backing plate attaches. Maybe the shock location on the swingarm or it's overall length is different not sure off hand. Where are you located?
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I actually own a wr430 and I can confirm that the WR swingarm is
Michel Dufayard said:
The swinging arm is longer on XC and CR, no ?
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yes, the cr swingarm is 25mm longer than the WR. The big difference is the location of the rear shock - the WR is 195mm from the wheel, whereas the cr is 240mm.
 
Longer how? 3/4 inch or so from the shock mounting point to the rear end? I didn't argue with guys selling off their bikes about what they really are/were and started out with the parts microfilm on back order that never came in. My main point the ride height is with the suspension mostly.
 
fran...k. said:
Longer how? 3/4 inch or so from the shock mounting point to the rear end? I didn't argue with guys selling off their bikes about what they really are/were and started out with the parts microfilm on back order that never came in. My main point the ride height is with the suspension mostly.
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The CR swingarm is 45mm longer than the WR from shock mounting point to the rear end. The other issue I have is the front forks, the CR forks are 60 mm longer than the WR forks
 
The WR front forks have shorter sliders than CR, but bottom half same length.
As far as I know, the WR shocks can be converted to CR length and vice versa with internal spacers.
Half of the height difference between the WR and CR rear suspension come from the shorter WR swingarm and the shocks lower mounts being approx 1" further back than the CR? So there is more slope on the WR shocks thus less vertical rise.
I have read here that mounting CR length shocks on the WR swingarm gives 11" + wheel travel with about 1" higher ride height than standard WR?
Would like to hear more about this.
 
I have a 1979 WR Frame/swingarm/rear wheel/rear brake set up & Ohlins 15" rear shocks if you need anything, I'd sell all of the pieces
or just what you need.

Husky John
 
slosh said:
The WR front forks have shorter sliders than CR, but bottom half same length.
As far as I know, the WR shocks can be converted to CR length and vice versa with internal spacers.
Half of the height difference between the WR and CR rear suspension come from the shorter WR swingarm and the shocks lower mounts being approx 1" further back than the CR? So there is more slope on the WR shocks thus less vertical rise.
I have read here that mounting CR length shocks on the WR swingarm gives 11" + wheel travel with about 1" higher ride height than standard WR?
I've compared the measurements on my WR and agree. I'm going to move the rear shock mounts back and slide the front forks up and see how it feels. If ok, will see if I can modify the length of the front as you've suggested. Thanks man
Would like to hear more about this.
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slosh said:
The WR front forks have shorter sliders than CR, but bottom half same length.
As far as I know, the WR shocks can be converted to CR length and vice versa with internal spacers.
Half of the height difference between the WR and CR rear suspension come from the shorter WR swingarm and the shocks lower mounts being approx 1" further back than the CR? So there is more slope on the WR shocks thus less vertical rise.
I have read here that mounting CR length shocks on the WR swingarm gives 11" + wheel travel with about 1" higher ride height than standard WR?
Would like to hear more about this.
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I just looked at my 1982 parts sheet and stand by what I posted earlier. In this year the only thing (on the fork page of significance to this discussion that I see) different between wr and cr is the damping spindle. xc models do not seem to exist for 1982. Perhaps when they went to the teflon bushings instead of the bronze ones the lower piece that attaches to the axle is different, I have noticed that maybe/most likely the chrome tube as well.
 
All fork sliders are the same until '84 when the WR got the shorter ones, before that the only difference is the damper rod length.
 
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