• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Machine shop

Aviyaytor

Aviyaytor

Husqvarna
A Class
Hey guys,
I have a crank that needs a new rod and lower bearing, and balanced, and a cyl that needs to be either honed, or bored. I haven't taken dimensions yet. Does anybody know a Husky guy I can send off to for machine work? Talked to a fellow Husky friend, and was told to make sure someone who is experienced in Huskys' to do it. It is for my 84 WR 400 L/C. Also, where to get a piston kit in the U.S.? HVA is in U.K. I believe? If anyone has an idea, please let me know. I will post pics of the project as it comes along.
Thanks again, Y'all!
Les
Argyle, Texas
 
Husqvarna-Parts.com is the first place I would look for for the Parts. Crank Works in Arizona can install the Rod and Balance it. A local automotive Machine shop can do the Cylinder, if not send it to NW Sleeve in Portland Oregon. The Husqvarna Engine designs need some know how to disassemble and reassemble. But the Rod replacement is pretty straightforward along with the Bore and Hone on the Cylinder.
 
I had an issue when I took my 86 400WR cylinder to the local auto machine shop. It was not located correctly as I found a new blemish on the reed cavity. It had to go another size up. My next bore went to the kawasaki shop when I had my KX250 cylinder bored. About $40 more than the local shop but a much higher level of trust.
 
Talked to a fellow Husky friend, and was told to make sure someone who is experienced in Huskys' to do it. It is for my 84 WR 400 L/C.
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I sent my Husky crankshaft to John at Vintage Husky but I think you would be fine with any shop whos business includes vintage motorcycle crankshafts, and I mean someone who does vintage stuff on a regular basis. Also, there are posts on this site from a few who mention where they have had crankshaft work done. You may want to do a search.
 
Talk to Vance at Q&E machine in Anaheim, California. He specializes in two strokes. He can rebuilt your crank like he did my 1972 Husqvarna CR 450. He has all of the tooling to do it right the first time.
1-714-630-5720.

Desmo
 
I do not think they balance this type of crankshaft. At least not in the sense of aiming at some balance factor. The 400 and 430 have the same crankshaft but the piston is certainly lighter. It seems to still be the same way with modern 250 and 300 two strokes. Getting it true, so there is hardly any run out at the crank ends is probably what is to hope is done well.

I got a Woosner 430 piston direct from Woosner USA and think I have put up a link to them in years prior. As for a 400 piston not sure if you do find a source I would be curious as I have a cylinder that could use the one mm over size one.
 
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