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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My winter projects

Thats funny just measuring pistons and bores 30 min ago.

Talking to the Wiseco rep last summer. Shocked me. He wants us/me put several heat and cool cycles in you new bore
and piston. 5 min. first couple times. add some more times. Add a small ride time in reve a bit and cool it down all the way.

He wanted me to cool it down as much as possible each time. This is much more than I have ever done.

Now a little secret I am sending out pistons after break in to be extreme high pressure nano shot peened. After break in and before any
signs or a few signs of that streaking or minor fretting on the piston. Removes no extra material , working good so far. I will post a pic next.
 
This is some of my x files photos here is a micro/nano shot peened piston. This is after break in and running
This was to taken out after any micro fretting. Or grooves you see sometimes. This is replacing the old days running piston in
and inspecting and removing any high spots. Only husky john knows this LOL IMG_1140.jpg IMG_1138.jpgIMG_1140.jpg
 
GaryM said:
Thats funny just measuring pistons and bores 30 min ago.

Talking to the Wiseco rep last summer. Shocked me. He wants us/me put several heat and cool cycles in you new bore
and piston. 5 min. first couple times. add some more times. Add a small ride time in reve a bit and cool it down all the way.

He wanted me to cool it down as much as possible each time. This is much more than I have ever done.

Now a little secret I am sending out pistons after break in to be extreme high pressure nano shot peened. After break in and before any
signs or a few signs of that streaking or minor fretting on the piston. Removes no extra material , working good so far. I will post a pic next.
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have always started a bike and idled until heat is felt in the barrel then shut off..usually done twice, then the third time is a ride. the secret you are mentioning is new tho, lol..
 
Just how much are you prepared to pay for 0.00001 of a hp and another years life on a slug that will last 5 years ?? just asking...love the trick stuff but $$ and reality always ruin my plans
 
Before i put it together i checked over the rod, well its toast.
Glad i saw it now, before it went big time.

Brought out a spare 400 with a worn top end. :)

Tore off the top and had a look, piston wore out but its mint where i need it to be. Nice cases every where i looked.
Put the whole other clutch basket and cover plus ignition on the spare set up. I had new friction, springs and drives to use again. On with the 430 parts and in it went.

I have a spare mint crank to rebuild that motor with, no bearings/seals ATM for it so i will do a major redo on it some day.

I love having my own Husky boneyard :)

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Just did a mates vor he had taken it to two companies to have it pressed out, 20t press couldn't shift it, we made up some drifts using gudgeon pins layed the frame on wood blocks and used a large sledge hammer got it out after about an hour of beating, there was absolutely no grease left in the bushes.
 
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