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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Twin Leading Shoe Cam Ajustment

1982 XC 430

1982 XC 430

Husqvarna
AA Class
Last Winter I built my 83 250 CR works replica. The one thing I just threw together was the front Brake. On the two rides I have ridden the bike the front proves to be totally worthless. The Steel Drum is badly pitted and will probably need to be replaced. Some how that got overlooked till it was Powder Coated and Laced to a re anodized Rim. I hope to ride it this weekend and plan to work over what I have. I will check the wear pattern on the shoes and drum and sand them in as necessary. The one thing I'm not sure about is the adjustment of the Cams. I just adjusted them so that they were parallel when I put them together. How else would one do it ?
 
have you seen the "how to setup twin leading shoes" post?

parallel is a good start. then fiddle from there. the trick is to wack some emery in the drum and then grind the shoes to match the drum. stick it in with double sided tape and then with it all assembled in a vice, rotate the plate with the brakes "on" to grind it to suit the drum.
 
I endorse the Surprize method. I have been amazed how poorly some shoes bed to the drum until they have been matched by the sandpaper method. One day I will get a double leading Husky brake to work as good as my 78 single leader on my 390 auto.
 
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