• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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crankcase rot repair

Troy,
Why not lap the case against the other mating surface? I'm not talking about 2 mismatched cases. I'm simply talking about checking the 2 original mating surfaces against one another before final assembly. It must be nice to have a granite machinists table to do this on. We don't all have such luxuries though A thick piece of plate glass is nice too. I wasn't talking about material removal though. Doing this will leave witness marks and its easy to see if they are going to seal by doing this. Thanks for the tip.

fran...k,
I don't know when I quoted your post? unless I said "massive welding". It's great you have achieved success in welding these cases or others like it. Forget I just said "these" I didn't mean to quote your post again. You quoted my posts sir, twice.

The idea here fellas is to lets not provoke the owner of these cases to do any welding if it's not necessary that would cause further damage or result in any undue warpage and or distortion so they will seal.

I didn't mean to provoke you guys trying to help either. I hope everything works out for him..

Thanks for the tips.
 
machinist table? its just a big slab of scrap from the granite shop that rents from me my machinist buddy scoped it all out said it was damn flat and to lap away i got granite side walks and planters in my yard want me to send you some
 
No thanks, but thanks for the offer. I thought you were talking about a Blanchard ground Granite machinists inspection table. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Now that I would love to have sitting around to eat my lunch off of in my own shop but can't see paying the large price associated with such an expensive item. That's the only thing I would trust as being a dead flat surface for doing such a thing on.
 
Granite surface plates are a staple of the manufacturing community and superseded Blanchard ground cast iron plate that are more commonly cross slotted and used as lapping plates. Granite plates are lapped finish maybe Blanchard ground rough prior to lapping
 
ok well all I know is mines Purdy dang flat and it was FREE:banana:AND I JUST EAT TOO MUCH SALAD NOW I WANT A NAP I WAS ON HEAR TIL AFTER 3 THIS MORNIN:eek: CH IS AS BAD AS MAPLE BACON CHIPS:naughty:
 
I had the best pink granite surface plates money could buy when I had my own shop. For what I do at home now, I would go with your suggestion. Flat granite is flat granite. Period!
 
if i decide to go with these cases, i will be sure to post up pics of the repair. one case is still "solid", while the other is just starting to perforate. i can see a small amount of white corrosion in the inner web on this one. so basically to use these it will need die ground and epoxied. i may have a set of 250 cases in my stash, but i cant remember. plenty of big bores tho. im still debating what i want this 84 to be, a 250 or 500...i have equal amounts of fun on both. both are better at different things! we will see, i have 2 bikes ready to ride anywhere at the moment so this is my winter project..
thanks for all the answers and tips, they are ALL helpful.
here she is fresh from the haul. i say this alot, but this bike really hasnt been rode much. pipe is very nice. actually a "true" 84, not a leftover 83. top end has the extra ports.
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justintendo said:
if i decide to go with these cases, i will be sure to post up pics of the repair. one case is still "solid", while the other is just starting to perforate. i can see a small amount of white corrosion in the inner web on this one. so basically to use these it will need die ground and epoxied. i may have a set of 250 cases in my stash, but i cant remember. plenty of big bores tho. im still debating what i want this 84 to be, a 250 or 500...i have equal amounts of fun on both. both are better at different things! we will see, i have 2 bikes ready to ride anywhere at the moment so this is my winter project..
thanks for all the answers and tips, they are ALL helpful.
here she is fresh from the haul. i say this alot, but this bike really hasnt been rode much. pipe is very nice. actually a "true" 84, not a leftover 83. top end has the extra ports.
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glad you saved it from the dork with the rattle can your gona put it back right RIGHT:eek:
 
for air cooled, i have 3 boreable 500 jugs, 1 stock bore 250 jug. oddly, no 430s.
yes, most likely the frame will be back to white. i do kinda like the lighter shade of blue on the frame sometimes..
 
lc in the 84 twin shock chassis? i could but i have 85-86 and 87-88 chassis around. if and when i get around to building another single shock it will be using one of my 400 motors. but you are saying to put a lc motor in the 84?
 
I used a black silicone called "pro seal" advanced auto parts had it at the time. I sealed a leaky case transmission center seam with it. I drained the tranny and let it sit so every drop of oil was out of it. They I washed the area with brake clean, then rubbing alcohol. Then made sure it was dry. I applied this pro seal silicone and put a spot lite bulb I had on a drop lite to bake it over night. This was an old Suzuki ts bike. It sealed it. I put a light film on all my center case gaskets.

Are the cases made from magnesium too? I asked my welding supplier for some sample magnesium TIG filler rod so I could weld the clutch covers. That case seam can be build up with weld.
 
justintendo said:
lc in the 84 twin shock chassis? i could but i have 85-86 and 87-88 chassis around. if and when i get around to building another single shock it will be using one of my 400 motors. but you are saying to put a lc motor in the 84?
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Some of the very first lc bikes were in 1984.


I have pictures of when I fabricated a single shock into a dual shock frame using a single shock swing arm. I had to cut the lower link and add a piece of grade 12 fine threaded rod to extend the lower link to adjust it till the rear suspension had its full travel. It worked awesome. That longer lower link(wish bone) needs to be made adjustable.
 
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