1982 cr500

What are the 5?

Silver Streak magazine test here: http://yeoldecycleshoppe.wordpress.com/category/husqvarna/

I am so happy I can now add to this thread, i have a vin but not sure of part of its real hard to see with all the paint on it.



I found it right here is Calgary, was not a cheap bike but a hell of a score.

Its 4 speed fairly stock but with an 84 dual pull front brake, still has the 17 on the rear and stuff.
New top end runs great 1 or 2 kicks to start it

I will create another thread more pics.

Steve

Nice find! My cases have finally been shipped out for refinishing. Silver stuff next. And so it begins...

By the way... this bike has a double leading shoe front brake. So does mine. But the brochures show a single, as does the awesome article that Skoalman just posted. What gives? Should a Silver Streak have a single or a double?

They came with the wide single, lots of us changed them to double only to our disapointment. The single works better.

Congrats ! Nice ride!

"Wide" single? Is that different than the other 82 CR's? What's the measurement I can look for in my pile of sad/lonely/forgotten Husky wheels?

Then there's the off-road issues... a double leading shoe becomes a double trailing shoe when you're stuck on a hill! They don't work so well backwards!

fark yeah looks awesome as it is .
and the twin trailing shoe shouldnt be a problem . what are you doing going backwards ?. mine still has the sls front brake
pretty much want mine to look like that . with an 18 rear wheel and modern guards . ufo white squarer ones . not too fond of the round blob stock ones

man that cycle world magazine atricle is awesome . dont miss out on the "view full size" on the bottom right .
it said it is a steel tank ? i htought they were alloy

alloy = steel in the grand ol usa in them days of plastics

79 390 (frame mods converted to 82 tank/seat). I cut a 82 tank and widened it more towards front to hold more fuel than a 500 tank. This will probably be my trail rider. The rest go in my look but don't touch glass case.
82 XC 125
82 CR 250
82.5 CR 500
83 CR 250

Only one that I still want is the 82 CR430 some day.

My vin CN 19382

Cool. What's the engine number? (just the first four are fine if you don't want to list the whole thing).

2086 197 or 137 very faint to see

my engine = 2094 0494

so while the engine is apart is it worth doing anything with the ports ? were they updated at all on the later models ? are there any "works " specs known to anyone .
i like the way it makes power now so if it aint broke dont fix it but ya gotta ask ...

just clean out the edges of the transfers out to the gasket line and smooth the case to barrel contacts. i will flick a pic up shortly to give you an idea. effectively blueprinting the existing ports.

Ol mate cleaned the ports and matched the cases for me. nice job

Basically he feathered out the liner to barrel edges around the transfers, smoothed to a knife edge all the bridges and made sure the barrel to engine cases were a smooth join with the gasket edge as the boundary.

he also took some off the inside of the transfers to get a smoother radius, they had some dags of material left there. no real increase in HP but torque is lifted and a slighter larger main jet was required.

Well worth the effort (except on new bikes, my 010 Kato 300 barrel is as smooth as a baby's out of the factory! No easy increases here!!)