• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

Piston clearances?

Old pistons from back in the day, yes. Modern pistons are slightly different. Go by the piston manufacturers specified clearance ...... it's on the box !
 
There are also clearance differences between cast and forged pistons. My father found out the expensive way back in 1973 when he replaced the piston in his 72 Puch 175. He had it bored to the Puch specs with a Wiseco replacement. He seized 2 pistons before he called Wiseco and was told the stock piston was cast and the Wiseco piston because it was forged require more clearance than OEM specs. They did not put the clearances in the box back then,
 
Slack is always better than tight! Don't forget - when they are worn out it is is usually by .2-.3mm worn, so an extra 10 microns wont make a lot of difference....

Andy
 
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