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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Here we go finally.

Bigbill

Bigbill

Husqvarna
Pro Class
My parts area is almost set up. My 83-cr250 crankshaft is going out tomorrow to O'Connor racing to have the connecting rod kit I received from HVA to be pressed together. Getting the bug to get going.
 
You don't share where's my popcorn? I like mine with butter, bacon makes everything better too.
 
My garage is still packed with used husky parts. Need to move them to make room for assembly. In the meantime I'm getting my shop work done on the engines. My cr250 crank is done with the new HVA connecting rod installed. Ken O'Connor Racing did the turn around time very quickly. Plus his videos on you tube are impressive with his quality workmanship. The cr500 crank, bottom end will go out next for a new HVA connecting rod and to be balanced. Everyone says the husky 500's have lots of vibrations. We will see if we can remove some of it by balancing the complete rotating assembly. Fine tune it.

Rebuilding the Husqvarnas one engine at a time, one bike at a time.
 
Not the O'Connor racing I know. Maybe these guys do not get involved with copywright of names. Strange the guy I know had some flyers listing crank work maybe 15 years ago.

Is balancing it or are you?
 
I'm not sure if I will balance it or not I need to make a fixture. I know how the static balance is done. Bill
 
Bigbill said:
I'm not sure if I will balance it or not I need to make a fixture. I know how the static balance is done. Bill
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how will it be balanced, only having one piston? are you going to balance the crank cheeks like a flywheel is or even a tire?
 
They static balance the complete rotating assembly. I seen them balance it without the flywheel and no primary gear which is strange to me. I would put the flywheel and primary gear on the crank too. Since the primary gear has no key a scribed line must be added for a accurate alignment.

The crank, plus the piston assembly and the flywheel / primary gear.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRmx0I3k2IY
 
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