1973 Husqvarna 250WR

Depends on what you plan to do with it. Display piece, rider, racer, flipper? Maybe you ought to wait for the flood alerts to subside so you're not preoccupied. Your corner of the county is sure getting a lot of rain in such a short period. Hope you're not seriously affected by it.

Chris, I like that tank. Looks really good. May not be historically correct but I always thought the Husky gun site logo should have always been larger than the original size.

Marty

I like it but I have others to consider. All good here Daryn! I got a set of spokes from Buchannon and am having problems with a few. They measure close but look too short.

In one of your pics the spokes look to long too. I feel you may have a lacing issue because it looks just like some of my early lace up problems, especially if its the rear hub. Them things can be a bugger until you do 1/2 a dozen of them. Theres a certain sequence to the lacing and an exact starting point that must be followed. Its outlined pretty well in the HVA shop manual and there are even pictures which I find extremely helpful.

I am following the manual and have talked with Angel at Bucannan. He said( on the last rear wheel with spokes that seemed too long) to keep tightening them the nipple will thread the spoke then grind the excess off. I did that and it worked ok. BUT!!!??? Then on this one there are spokes with excess threads before the nipple that cannot be made to tighten without threads showing. I will take the wheel apart for the 3rd time and see if I have made a mistake! I will take and post before and after pics as I want you guys to suffer too!!! Thanks for the advice. I will also post up pics of every spoke length. I thought they were ok but I am Missing something. Thanks Chris

But, but, I don't want to suffer.

Okay, good idea to measure the length of the spokes that Buchanan sold you to see if they're similar to stock. Then we can go from there. I've purchased spoke sets from them in the distant past and they were fine but thats not to say they didn't screw up your recent order.

Here are a couple pics showing where to start the rear hub spoke lacing using the six shortest spokes. Any other starting point may not work.
Buchanan refers to this lace pattern as "the odd ball".


Sometimes the rear hub will have no casting marks if the factory grinds them off. In this case look for the grinding marks which will extend across the conical surface on opposite ends as seen under the blue line in the pic below.



The starting point for the six short spokes on this hub is the lower left end of the blue line.
The significance of this starting point is its correlation to the spoke holes in the smaller diameter end.

I have a pipe hangar that seems too long. Anyone got a measurement for the part numbered 14?

I bought what looks like a shorter version off ebay. We will see

Also bolt # 15 is 75mm long seems like about an inch too long. May be I have the wrong manual? I'll show pics when I get back to the shop.

Got the wheel done. I guess my clocking of the wheel to hub was off. I brought it back a bit so I had the same spoke to rim distance on the brake side. Then had to reverse the other side so the up spokes went to the right and the down spokes went to the left. Still had a bunch of spoke to trim but all threads were under the nipples.

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I had to lengthen one for my 450. I guess we should have traded.

The 73 and 74 parts list has the fastener lengths. Some of the exhaust bolts require a spring to dampen the vibration.

Excellent! Now, wasn't that just loads of fun?

I love spoking the wheels. Seems my last 3 or 4 were much different in regards to how the spoke lengths laid out. Probably the rims but I took them apart. I just wanted all the threads in the nipples I can handle them too long. As for the pipe hangar, I got the Shorter one and it's too short. It is an original Pipe, so I may be cutting and fabbing some here. The page I linked in post 88 is correct for this scooter. I have to take the wheels off again to remove the top out springs from the forks and put a sprocket on the rear. And I'll use aluminum fenders for the cool factor. So not near the end yet but she is starting to look SWEET!! Pics tomorrow.

Can I send you my next lacing project? I'm not much of a fan.

Yeah That happens riding or sitting in the garage.

Well I'm glad we are back. I've been screwing with this old WR for a while and finally looked at some pics of the brochure. Seems I am all wrong on the Tank, Pipe, Forks and the Rear Shocks. I for some reason was thinking this was a 250CR. So I'm going to remedy all the problems because I have all those parts. They just need some Love! I Bought a set of 73 250CR cases and will build another bike for that engine. Looking around the shop I found 2 other 250WR motors, So I'm not sure where that will go. I also bought a 73 400CR motor in poor shape, but a worthy foe!!

and the other side of the 400 and another 450CR vintage 1974!!