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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Kicker idler shaft.

Husq.fleet

Husq.fleet

Husqvarna
AA Class
Cleaning parts and getting ready to assemble the engine for my 82 500 project. The cases I'm using dont have the "flanged" kicker idler shaft. I have a cracked case that does. Opinions on a need to change it to the flanged style? Removal and install tips? I'm using a 87 clutch, primary gear and kicker gears. Kawasaki KX 500 rod conversion should be done this week, finally.............. Any other 500 engine tips while its still apart?

I have used the updated kicker gears without the flanged shaft but had to shim the idler gear out to keep it from rubbing on the washer behind the clutch on the mainshaft. Took .040 off of the face of it and used another stock washer behind it, kept the original in front behind the snap ring. Makes a better gear mesh that way also.:thumbsup:

Thanks in advance, Scott
 
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