• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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OR tranny from the late 70's/early 80's??

My uneducated guess would be yes you can put the 78 - 79 OR trans in the 82-83 cases. I have no experience with this particular task but my experience with the early to mid 70's Huskys is that when something worked well they stuck with it until motorcycle technology forced them to change.

Looking at the part numbers for the two eras the countershaft part number is the same for all the big bores i.e. CR, WR, and OR. The only reason I could see that the clutch shaft part numbers differed was due to the number of teeth on the sprocket that's forged with the shaft. The exploded view of the trans is the same as well.
 
I have not taken the earlier ones apart however I doubt it would be likely to do without extreme measures. I seem to recall from studying the sheets that the output bearing, the one near the front drive sprocket gets larger with the later engines. First I suspect you need to determine what input shaft, clutch shaft, front one, you want to use and then you need find an earlier transmission that has the matching first gear on the rear shaft.
Crashaholic said:
My uneducated guess would be yes you can put the 78 - 79 OR trans in the 82-83 cases. I have no experience with this particular task but my experience with the early to mid 70's Huskys is that when something worked well they stuck with it until motorcycle technology forced them to change.

Looking at the part numbers for the two eras the countershaft part number is the same for all the big bores i.e. CR, WR, and OR. The only reason I could see that the clutch shaft part numbers differed was due to the number of teeth on the sprocket that's forged with the shaft. The exploded view of the trans is the same as well.
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The countershaft sprocket being the same was only at the end of the run for that set of engine cases.
The starting is different for the two engines the earlier does not have a small gear on the rear of the clutch basket and needs to be in neutral or have the wheel off the ground for the kick starter to be useable unless in neutral.
 
Would the same theory apply to the kickstart shafts between the two species? I would like to know if I can use a kickstart shaft from a primary kick in my 79 390WR engine as I may have a spare to play with
 
If we took a later wr tranny 1st thru 3rd wr gears and installed a later cr tranny installed the 4th thru 6th cr gears could it be done?

These gear setup is a screamer in the woods it has low end and the upper gears ratios are close enough to be staying in the meat of the power band. It's wicket, shift, wicket shift, wicket shift. Your in the power band the whole time there's no low rpm bog between the gears. With the upper end of the wr tranny we need to wind it up before we shift.

I had a '78 husqvarna 250 "OR" I was impressed with the tranny.
 
Basically the best thing is to have the parts in hand and see if it can mix and match. I have plenty of the 82 to 88 engines apart but none of the earlier ones with the cases split.

"later wr tranny 1st thru 3rd wr gears and installed a later cr tranny installed the 4th thru 6th cr gears could it be done?" not sure what that has to do with the title of the thread here. It is not always as simple as earlier/later or wr,cr, or, xc etc there are often differences for the displacement or as time went by.

Kind of amusing wicket, what does that make you think of. A device a judge at a dog show uses to see if your dog's hieght doesn't match the standard? Something to stick in the ground to play croquet or something like that? I always thought it was wick it as once upon a time carburetors had wicks like kerosene or even whale(or other) oil lanterns.
 
Wicket, wick it, twist it, burp it, I guess wick it sounds right

Wick it.
A short snap of the throttle on a motorcycle.(lol)

Example, Johnny has a kx500 he likes to wick it because it has way to much power to hold the throttle wide open. He prefers to wick it.

Your funn'n me right lol. It's tgif.
 
All you have to do is mix the primary kick CR and WR transmission gears you want get the same thing, no reason to try to use the non primary kick transmission parts. Even better, why reinvent the wheel and just build a stock bike?
 
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