1. Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

After - Rear Hub

Discussion in 'Vintage/Left Kickers' started by schimmelaw, Mar 22, 2009.

  1. schimmelaw Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Location:
    Rowlett, Texas
    81' 430XC street legal motard conversion in progress.

    No before photo. 82' wheel in decent shape - ebay purchase. Needed/wanted the hub assembly, spokes and nipples. Bearings shot, inner bearing spacer corroded, but the hub itself was in decent shape, it had all the spokes and the nipples weren't rusted.

    Photo 1: Powdered 82' hub w/ new bearings and nickle plated inner bearing spacer (before final clean up - see all the dust in the hub). The stock powdered 81' backing plate w/ new rubber o-ring.
    Post powder, these parts didn't fit together and still "spin". The backing plate would "lock" itself in the hub and prohibt the wheel form rolling. The powder was so thick on both parts that the designed in tolerances were gone. Both parts had to be scraped, sanded and laped before they would work as a unit.

    Photo 2: What do we have here? Prepped parts. The above mentioned hub/backing plate. "Wide" EBC brake shoes w/ nickle plated springs. Nickled axle and nut. Nickled chain adjusters w/ a couple of anod nuts. Gold anod wheel spacer. Drilled and powdered brake arm. Cleaned brake actuator. The only BUFO bolt on the whole bike (brake stay arm) and ssteel attachment nut.

    Photos 3, 4 and 5: Mounted up and ready for spoke/rim install.

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    schimmelaw, Mar 22, 2009
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  2. HuskyT Moderator

    Location:
    Corona, California
    O-ring size from photo #1 and source please

    what di you use for the axle spacer foam ( goes around axle tube inside against the wall of the hub and holds axle tube in center of hub) or was the original still usable...?

    I have some oil resistant packing foam that i am thinking of using.

    Better ideas?

    T
    HuskyT, Mar 23, 2009
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  3. schimmelaw Husqvarna
    AA Class

    Location:
    Rowlett, Texas
    Tim,

    O-ring from local hardware store. (Not H Depot or Lowes - no selection) I don't know what size. Just took the backing plate w/ me and rooted around till I found something that fit in the recess and was snug on the actuator arm.

    Foam around the inner axle spacer? Not in mine and no hint that at one time there was some foam. Just sandwiched the spacer btwn the wheel bearings and went with it.

    Rick
    schimmelaw, Mar 23, 2009
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