Husky CR400 - splined countershaft to replace tapered shaft?

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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

ralph311

Husqvarna

Jun 14, 2014

Not sure if this is the best place to post but anyways....

I have my 1974 CR400 in bits at the moment. It has the 'orrible tapered countershaft sprocket setup so I'm thinking now is the time to convert it to a splined shaft if possible.

Can anyone tell me what the part number(s) are for a splined shaft that will fit? I believe my gearbox is referred to as a 'new generation 5 speed'.

Sources for said parts would be good too!