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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

XC500 with a yz front end and glamis

Huskerdoo

Huskerdoo

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hey everyone, just thought I share a little experience with my 84 xc500. I couldn't seem to get my front dls setup to provide anything that could be called stopping power. When contemplating springing for some new EBC brake pads, I ran across a complete front end assembly from an 87/88 YZ250 for crazy cheap. The triple clamp stem from the YZ was thicker, but unfortunately was an odd size so I couldn't do a bearing swap. A 30mm thick stem like on some modern bikes would have been a simple bearing swap, but this was in-between that and the stock thickness (~1"). Looking at the two sets of clamps I thought I would try to stay with the yz clamps. The husky clamps would have taken away slightly more travel and possibly drop the front end down. I had some shims made and used a husky stem with the yz clamps. This was back in January. I took the big husky on a trip to glamis later in that month. Found out the hard way that the increase in fork offset from the yz clamps coupled with the soft white rear springs made the bike handle pretty bad. I have since gone to a heavier rate spring in the rear. The suspension on both ends is now pretty sweet, and I love having a disc in the front, but the bike is still pretty twitchy. With the old front end, the bike was a freight train. I have some spare Husky triples, I think the next step will be to hog those out to fit the 43mm forks and see what that does. Anyhow, here's some pics, I think the white YZ fender looks pretty good on the husky as well, btw.husky yz forks.jpgglamis dunes.jpg
 
I have a set that someone had bored the Husqvarna triple out to accept the 43mm forks. The triple does not seem to have too thin of a margin about the outside of the clamp and the stance between seems to match the KX gull wing clamp holding yamaha 43mm forks one one of my projects
 
I normally use a Marzocchi 42 mm on Husky triple clams and I had never any kind of problems. And there is enough material to go on up to 43 mm for sure. I am looking for a Yamaha 43 mm forks to do same experience but I would like the drum double brake.
IMHO of course.
 
I was b%tchin about my dls on the wr 400 and I rode it at an event recently and the front axle nut came loose.

this resulted in the brakes improving:confused:

I tightened everything for a natural terrain MX and found I can lock the front wheel up now?

obviously the brakes were not lined up even though I was doing the back spin and lock before tightening everything up. but I now have acceptable front brakes Weird....
 
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