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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

125 WR 1980 to 82

and another question, Fred. I can buy this Mikuni carb, is a 34 and is made to work inclined, that could be good on the 125 (I think). What you think?
Some other has any experience?
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Fred,
They are beautiful in all their colors! I just purchased an 82 175. So, knowing the 175 parts are rare, and that the 82 and 83 parts are not identical, can you please post details of how you went to a 175? Gotta start somewhere, so here is the sickly patient...

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hello picklito
the pipe is from a suzuki RM 78 modified to fit the hva frame (very close from the 1983hva pipe)
i have also the 83 with 83 hva pipe, a little bit different ;well tuned with the cylinder
the cylinder is a 125 82-83,(cylinder 175 is the same with a 175 liner;same porting....)
adjusting a new liner 175 to the 125
adjusting the porting
jeff bens have requested to wiseco the manufacture of the good pistons (64,75-65-65,25)
put an hpi ignition with variable advance
a great offroad bike maybe the best!
 
I did some checking for pistons and found this: KTM 200 64 mm STANDARD SIZE. If the piston meets the specs with trimming or cutting windows, the cylinder can be Nikasil coated and sized to clearance over the piston. Also found the piston for the kawasaki KDX 175/200 is 66mm. I personally have found the 86 KX250 I replaced a piston in meets size for size against a Husqvarna 250 piston. Some expense required but either could make the 175 option work. I found a test on the 1983 175XC & WR but it is not in the collection just posted in the vintage section. Anyone who needs it is welcome to pm me and send me your email so I can send it. It is over 2meg so I can not upload here.

The test also has a sidebar about what Mitch Payton did to fatten the powerband but no specs on the porting changes.

UPDATE: The test is now in the collection mentioned above. I emailed it to the owner. I will be sending him Husky Club Newsletters and all the parts catalogs and shop manuals I collected over the years.
 
jimspac said:
I did some checking for pistons and found this: KTM 200 64 mm STANDARD SIZE. If the piston meets the specs with trimming or cutting windows, the cylinder can be Nikasil coated and sized to clearance over the piston. Also found the piston for the kawasaki KDX 175/200 is 66mm. I personally have found the 86 KX250 I replaced a piston in meets size for size against a Husqvarna 250 piston. Some expense required but either could make the 175 option work. I found a test on the 1983 175XC & WR but it is not in the collection just posted in the vintage section. Anyone who needs it is welcome to pm me and send me your email so I can send it. It is over 2meg so I can not upload here.

The test also has a sidebar about what Mitch Payton did to fatten the powerband but no specs on the porting changes.

UPDATE: The test is now in the collection mentioned above. I emailed it to the owner. I will be sending him Husky Club Newsletters and all the parts catalogs and shop manuals I collected over the years.
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The KDX175/KTM200/IT200/YFS200/YFZ350 pistons all use 16mm wrist pins, where the Husky 125 (like everyone else's 125) uses a 15mm wrist pin.
 
If you can save money getting someone else's piston reliably, what's the cost of a conrod to take a 16mm wristpin with needle bearing? The price you pay for an obsolete piddler. If I were to build a 175, I would want a bigger wristpin than a 125.
 
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