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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

husqvarna tips

Bigbill

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Rebuilding the fuel pedcock on the 70/80 bikes. I notice the rubber insert from a 72 Suzuki ts 185 can be installed inside the pedcock housing.

Those stripped Allen hex screws. We all have them sooner or later. I use a flat nose punch to close up the hex on the screw just a little to close up the hex. Then I line up the Allen hex wrench over the hex head screw lining up the old hex as close as we can and lightly bang the wrench into the screw head rebroaching it. It comes out so perfect the screw can be reused again.

The same thing can be done with screws too flat slotted screws and Phillips head screws.

When removing the clutch plates. Before you remove the driver plates we would file a notch in each tang so each clutch plate goes back in the same location. We did this on the heavy machinery that used the similar clutch set up. It saves the clutch from wearing or breaking in again. You file all the driven tangs in a row.

These little tricks can make life so much easier.
 
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