• 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.

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175 frame?

I purchased the 175 frame plus some frame parts, smaller gas tank,
but lost the bid on the engine. I have a complete 430wr engine sitting here.

That's a lot of frame weight for a 125/175 engine. The 125 frames got smaller in '85?
 
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ebay right now, ronbishopmoto is the user name
Husqvarna 175 Wiseco 63mm Piston Kit , New old stock . 1975-76 . P/N 161143504

  • $199.00
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You guys are right same WR frame same WO-00000 serial number. So matching numbers for a 83 430 WR AC HUSKY. I have the correct engine number. Now I have the correct drum brake front fork setup but I may put the drum brake front wheel a side and put a disc brake front end. If the kid races post vintage we can change the front wheel.
 
No problem. It is confusing because there are 3 different 175 engines. One is based on the old aluminum case 125, the 75-76 is nothing but a destroked and debored Mag 250, and then you have the '83 which is based on the '77-'83 125 Mag. Then to add even more confusion, there are two different pistons for the '82 HP kit and the 83 production bike.
 
One production year, or sort of two if you count the '82 175 kit bikes. The '83s are not common, but I would not really call them rare either, they sold WRs and XCs and they sold quite a few of them, what is rare is the piston. I think there were probably a lot of them that people gave up trying to get a 175 piston and did what bill did, put a bigger easier to find parts for engine in their 175 chassis.
 
The dealer I purchased the 430wr from thought it was a military 250 the four serial numbers matched. I could see she was a big bore looking through the exhaust port. I kept quiet and bought it as a 250. She's complete ign and all.
 
And the 75-76 175 is 6 fins.

I believe all the military 250s were autos so I'm not sure how you could mistake one of those for a 430WR.
 
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