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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Magnificent 7

oldbikedude said:
Machinist smachicist. You can do it yourself. you know you're thinking about it.....lol
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I know guy that's retired and hell knock that right out for me for $10 bux.

I been kicking around about getting a lathe and milling machine?

You don't know how bad I want to make up couple of aluminum swing arms, foot pegs, etc....
 
probably a safe bet theres a few buyers right here. some swingarm pivot case bushings would be a nice product! one for the dual shocks and another for the singles..
 
justintendo said:
probably a safe bet theres a few buyers right here. some swingarm pivot case bushings would be a nice product! one for the dual shocks and another for the singles..
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I agree! There is so much more I would like to do. Kinda pain trying to tell this guy what I want, with out making something up first.
 
I went ahead and plated the replacement set of 390 rear motor mounts. Still like to know what I did with the set I had plated. I got to thinking about how the aluminum front ones come loose sometimes and these cases are gettin hard to find. So staying with metal ones instead of aluminum ones I made.
FYI, I have a good SEM ignition plus an extra one that's bad if you know someone that wants to purchase them? I had them for the 390, thinking that I may have wanted to put lights on it, but just going to keep it as Cr.
 
as for the front plates, i have swapped my bikes over to the stainless ones phil reproduced. they are a bit heavier, but its nice not having the bolts come loose or the aluminum wear or crack. im sure they would polish nicely.
 
Doing lettering on the 390 cylinder. Same thing. Etched with sandblaster then painted and clear coated.
Beesh! Cutting out these little letters!
 

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justintendo said:
probably a safe bet theres a few buyers right here. some swingarm pivot case bushings would be a nice product! one for the dual shocks and another for the singles..
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If you have access to a machine shop or happen to own a metal cutting lathe, I designed an interlocking flange assembly that will act as a solid piece when the swingarm nuts are tightened. This is specifically designed to repair egged or cracked rear engine mounts The design works for both twin and single shock. The only difference is the swingarm pivot ID
 
You would be surprised what you can make with just a bandsaw, drill press, and a belt sander.

My father and I used just the above to make custom engine mounts, chain guides, and most anything that could be made from plate stock. I actually have the above in my shop I used as a teen working with my father. I learned so much from him I became a rock star engineer.
 
jimspac said:
You would be surprised what you can make with just a bandsaw, drill press, and a belt sander.

My father and I used just the above to make custom engine mounts, chain guides, and most anything that could be made from plate stock. I actually have the above in my shop I used as a teen working with my father. I learned so much from him I became a rock star engineer.
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i would not be surprised, im aware of what can be done. its takes time, something im short of between my 85 year old house and 56 hour work weeks. i like to make stuff as i do have access to a few tools and welders at home and work, but sometimes i do like to support other enthusiasts with reasonable prices and just buy stuff. if darren were to make a few items that fit the primary kick bikes i would likely buy em.
 
I'm gettin pooped!

Ok so the XC kinda out shines Weeeeeeee Ninety!

So had to put lil more Weeeeeeeeeeeeee in it!

I did not want to duplicate the XC though.

So I have tried all sorts of things as concepts.

Hell even painted tips of cylinder fins gold. Pew, yuk, chitty chitty shitty!

I even folded that husky logo over the side but I liked it better on top.

Ha the damn thing reflects in bottom of head.

Wat u thots nowz?

Yes motor mounts are spun upwards to hold cylinder from touching.
 

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I have found that the front steel mounting plated seems to have much less vibration. Of course most all the old standard Al plates would have some elongation to the holes.

I would be interested to have some ( a bunch ) of the rear steel case mounts - the inserts I mean for the cases made. Would have to make a few made a bit bigger or just have all made bigger and ream the case to fit. Has to have the later clearance for the inside ID so no case cracking per husky bulletin. Also we could use the later bigger OD swing arm pivot bolt and made the frame hole bigger. Want to make these engine cases last and last.

Would like to see what Jimspac has for the mounting? 81 and 82 frames also ?
 
I am going to make a PDF of the sketch I made to handle the previous owner modifications of my stable. He converted a 82 250WR engine to mount in a 1985 KX125 frame so he reamed the rear mount to Ø.750 for a sleeve to accommodate the KX125 15mm axle. On the 86 400WR engine he put a Ø.872 reamer thru both cases to get rid of the egging of the flange holes. My design will make a solid 2 flange system that will interlock at the case split line. I will make it available for you to evaluate and I would make it stepped and interlocking to avoid removing more case stock than necessary. Bear in mind I made the sketch to accommodate what I was given to work with. On my 430WR engine I have egging on the drive side of the rear mount and also a crack showing on the rear of the mount lug of the case.
In this case the design will be modified to suit the 430WR situation
 
Ok ok! Typpy passed on the El see snore!

Now want a Maico!

See this is what happens when you get the resto bug! One can't Maico Up His Mind!

Have to resto one of them on that other forum! Cafe Maico!
 

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Once you get your head around how the Maico clutch goes together, you will find that they are a great bike to ride. I had a '79 250 Magnum MXer for over ten years, loved it.
Tony.
 
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