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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Source For New Cylinder Head Studs?

Binx

Binx

Husqvarna
AA Class
Lads - if you've seen any of my other posts you already know I'm a total newbie when it comes to vintage Husky ownership and maintenance. (Motorcycle maintenance in general, for that matter.) So please forgive when I'm asking some really basic questions.

With the help of this forum am hoping to rebuild a 1976 175. Got the head and cylinder off last night. The studs look NASTY and I'm guessing need to be replaced.

Where do I find replacements? Are generic replacements available? Necessary to find Husky-specific studs? Would think generic would work as long as I'm matching length, diameter, thread pitch, etc. Yes? No?

Eventually I plan to post a chronicle of my restoration adventures. Trust me, you will be amused.

Again, TIA for your patience and any help you can provide. Binx

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If you remove them make sure the cases are heated in an oven for at least 30 min. Otherwise the threads in the cases will tear. If you run a tap in the to clean them you will not be able to keep them from backing out at full operating temperature. You can get replacements from Phillip. Just verify the length when ordering as you are not likely to find them on his website. He has much more than is listed there.
 
Don't want to step on toes but.
When you warm the cases to remove bearings.
Double nut the studs, remove them, wire wheel em,clean threads in cases.
Light grease on studs and on threads both in cases and head nut threads.
They will be some pitting no big. AS the torque on these is less than 25 Ft.LBS.
Later George
 
You can also get a VW air cooled cylinder stud that is the same length..from memory a 1600cc VW .. take a Husky one into a VW guy and he should be able to match..
 
Those studs will be fine with a clean up. There is not that much load on them and they are the same size for all engine sizes. A 175 should be fine. Make sure you split the cases to get all the rust out that has fallen into the crank. This is a real pain on Huskys and it pays to remove the cylinder with engine upside down if possible. Bit hard when still in the bike! Good luck.
 
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