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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

88 400WR clutch basket

ajcmbrown said:
Thanks again 2premo, but I have had no joy with this clutch basket either, am I just being a tight a$$ or am I out of touch with prices because $600 AUD seems an awful lot for a clutch basket?
I guess the hard thing to swallow is that the part is listed on European and US (AOMC.com) websites as $75 USD and $85 Euro plus shipping but none in stock. Still waiting to hear if the part is available or NLA.
Tony.
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I tried to buy one from Hall's perhaps a year or so ago at a similar price but they are not for real. AOMC I assume is appalacian off road near charlston wv. That place had me thinking a battery electric Freeride was available here.
 
ajcmbrown said:
It's interesting to note that the Italians stuck with essentially that same frame for their four strokes into the late 90's, possibly later.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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The Italians made major improvements. At least one major improvement, the frame has rigid points to hold the ends of the swingarm pivot bolt, even put a grease fitting in it.

The 85-86 like a lot of early generation mono shock set ups was more progressive than what has been settled on by now. I think this would make for a more plush ride in the first 2/3 of the stroke. The guys that had them new, the ones that get a new bike every year or so liked them in the trail rider realm around here. Too many parts bearings and hard parts the bearings ride on.
 
Yeah I saw that you have them Andy, it was just a matter of cost, with our lousy exchange rate and shipping it would have cost me around $600 AUD.
In trying to keep a bit of a lid on cost, this unexpected damage to the basket would have been a major contributor in the cost of restoring this bike, and I still have plenty to buy before I'm finished.
I would have preferred a new part, but instead I will have to settle for a very good used part along with the rest of the clutch components as spares.
Tony.
 
They look ok but I will run some verniers over them tomorrow night, don't happen to know the minimum thickness measurement do you JC? From memory I think I need to measure the entire clutch pack as one?
Tony.
 
I cant find any info on the minimum measurement for the 6 spring clutch, only the 5 spring with a minimum measurement of 32.5mm, this entire stack of steel and fibre plates measures 31.8mm, so I am not sure. You are more than welcome to them if you think they will be of use?
Let me know, if you can use them and I will post them to you.
Tony.
 
Don't place too much importance on the thickness of plates. The key to all clutches is making sure the stack of plates is at least 2mm more than the gap you get when the clutch hub and pressure plate are held together.

Andy.
 
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