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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Husky Chain Tension - the ultimate reference!!!

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Thought I would share with you something I came across whilst listing a load of new parts on the website... Pic refers to 1982 to 1984 bikes. Andy.P1010532.JPG
 
This is more important than most think. I've seen a few loose running chains crack cases in my day. Not mine but break out the JB Weld.

Chain tention maintenance is number 1 if not it could get costly.
 
Don't forget most bikes I have seen are missing the spring loaded chain tensioner. We ran the double roller that seemed to work but we found out the spring loaded one was missing. I did add them. But finding the "H" roller was impossible. I put on the square roller. It worked.
 
We have the Chain tensioner complete kits, replacement 'Weld-on' repair lugs, springs, bushes etc... Also a few genuine nos Husky roller wheels with the 'H' on!


Andy
 
I use a proper modern style guide and eliminate the roller for my XC/CRs, the shorter travel WR you can use the stock guide and eliminate the roller. The tensioner is just a band aid fix for an ineffective guide.

And wrx is right, loose is far better than too tight.
 
Well my son cracked the case on his 430wr I'm not sure what fell off or if the chain was too loose but I want to make it original. We can't afford cracked cases. I'm over worried.
 
This thing is the problem.

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Its a leftover from the mid '70s and should never have been used on a bike with more than 8" of travel. The correct way to fix the issue is not to use the gimicky roller/tensioner, but to adapt a proper guide that makes it impossible for the chain to jump off the bottom of the sprocket. I have used these, from a later Husky, I think an '87.

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Even better though, because it completely encloses the sprocket on the bottom edge, is to use one of these modern blocks and make a bracket to adapt it to the Husky swing arm.

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With one of these, it is impossible for the chain to derail as the guide forces it to seat on the sprocket. Thats why you never see modern bikes derailing chains unless a rock or something gets stuck in the guide.
 
im pretty sure the guide you pictured is a husky products item? they didnt ever come on the bikes did they? i have several of them and have them fitted to several, they do work well
 
I think the later single shock bikes came stock with that guide, maybe only the CRs? There are too many of them on eBay for it to be a HP aftermarket guide.
 
This is why we see so many cracked cases were the sprocket guard was ripped off and the screw threaded holes cracked. I don't want to scare you but it is Halloween. BOO****************************************

Just kidding about Halloween but this chain tensioner is very important and I think "that's good enough" thoughts in most cases isn't going to cut it. I just wanted to raise an awareness about it. I think we all have guessed it's good enough sometimes and we been lucky so far.

Let's do it right while still can get the parts.

Hint, Every time a part needs to be replaced I order two so one is in-house extra. On that weekend ride if something happens and it's needed you have it. I had in stock pistons, cylinders, cases, gasket sets, tires,tubes, carb jets, chains,sprockets. I could refresh a husky engine in three hours of it breaking. Before all the husky parts are online I scoured the old husky dealers for parts around the country.
 
That was my point, the gimicky tensioner is NOT "doing it right", it is a band aid fix for the real problem which is the totally inadequate guide. That guide is fine for the Husky's up to '77 with 6-9" of travel, but after that it is of little use. Fix the guide and the gimicky tensioner is redundant and no longer needed. If the tensioner is such a good idea, why is it no other bike of the era or since uses one?
 
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