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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Two questions -- 1986 400 Enduro

MotoFo

MotoFo

Husqvarna
AA Class
1) Odometer drive. Would someone out there please explain how the tab on the OD drive sits in the hub. I found photos of the drive online and I believe the tab is bent into a U shape (I straightened mine out for the moment as it had one bend in it). If so, I take it the tab is supposed to catch on the hub (??). I did something wrong previously as, when riding, it was whining like mad. I thought I blew up the drive but it appears ok. I'm thinking the tab was just slightly hitting the hub.

2) Chain roller. The old one looks to have seized and chain rub melted it away. I bought a new one and assume the recessed side faces out. If I tighten it down the roller does not spin. Is the nut supposed to be just loose enough so the roller can spin? Also, I assume the chain is supposed to be underneath the roller. Correct?

Much thanks!

OdometerDrive.jpg


ChainRoller.jpg
 
It looks like you got the roller (a roller perhaps that design has superceded the smooth ones I am used to) but not the two bearings and spacer that goes between them. Then some washers may be needed for clearance against that aluminum piece and the nut or bolt head on the other side. Looks like a wear piece in there #53 but apparently not called for on the wr version. I would say the chain goes on top of that and under the upper one if you had the top roller instead of the chainguard.

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Not sure about the odometer drive, turn it so the part that would engage the hub is visible.

Fran
 
you definitely have the chain on the wrong side. keep it above the roller, when you are speaking of the lower roller. often i will put a small washer on first so that the roller can still turn when the roller is tightened down.
 
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