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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE 350 1995

stormer254

stormer254

Husqvarna
AA Class
Just picked up TE 350 in pieces locally and i am considering re building but spares seem hard to come by, the chrome bore is damaged, has anyone installed a steel liner in one of these, also is there another make piston that can be used. I dislike breaking complete bikes but if I can notfind spares this might be its fate.:(
 
stormer254 said:
Just picked up TE 350 in pieces locally and i am considering re building but spares seem hard to come by, the chrome bore is damaged, has anyone installed a steel liner in one of these, also is there another make piston that can be used. I dislike breaking complete bikes but if I can notfind spares this might be its fate.:(
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if you do decide to break i would be interested in the clutch cover and transmission..the 350 was somewhat uncommon for a husky wasnt it?
 
I can't remember the name, but there was a small UK shop, that specialized in Husky single cam bikes. He used to post on Thumper Talk.
 
I just brought a 1993 te350,only 2 owners,USA import, anyway done some research through a husky dealer in NZ, he did some research on this model and said everything is available, he said new complete cranks, valves,gaAkers,clutch plates,gearbox etc all there,just 2 weeks order to wait.
 
stormer254 said:
Just picked up TE 350 in pieces locally and i am considering re building but spares seem hard to come by, the chrome bore is damaged, has anyone installed a steel liner in one of these, also is there another make piston that can be used. I dislike breaking complete bikes but if I can notfind spares this might be its fate.:(
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if u have the old piston i might be able to help. i got a piston dealer, he s got a lot of pistons from older engines still boxed up and also he might be able to do a small run on pistons. Turn around time is about 8 weeks...
Whats about Wössner, Wiseco or JE - are they not doing these Pistons?
 
A damaged chrome bore is not a big problem, check out the cost of having it re chromed . I have sent 2 stroke barrels away that looked like junk after bearing failure , come back as good as new . Have not put a steel liner in a husky TE barrel , but has worked well in other engines . The alloy barrel needs enough thickness to be machined out to give support to the steel sleeve when they are both pressed together . If you have a good machinist take your barrel into him for a talk . Sleeves are available online from USA , would be surprised if your size was not available . The fitting instructions for the sleeve are online as well .
 
Thanks for all the replies, at the moment I have located a 'good' engine from a stolen insurance write off, if it is as good as the vendor says that is the way I 'll go and repair the other engine if and when bits turn up at a reasonable price!
 
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