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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1972 450CR

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http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/stuck-cylinder-advice-needed.16064/#post-141810


Bummer Steve, That 360 looked like a very nice project. There will always be another. Old Weird Harold sold a lot of Huskies here in NM.

Harold Goldberg was working for West Honda, West Honda is no more so I wonder where Harold is now.

You did well to miss this 450.... I have quite the parts list going and have yet to split the cases. Not sure what I will see there.

Mike
 
I think I know the answer but ; Will the fork stem from the 72 CR250 be the same as the 72 CR450? They appear the same to me.

Mike
 
Yes, same fork stems and triple trees.
I remember Weird Harolds.
My 1970 400 came from Joe & Mary Turney's place. They sold BSA, Husqvarna, CZ. Think it was on Lomas. Dad bought it brand new there.
 
That's pretty cool Steve.

Harold started on Lomas then moved to the corner of Zuni and Louisiana. I Joined the Navy and when I came back Harold was gone.

Sweet, I just picked up a steering stem off ebay.

Mike
 
Here is the steering stem, If you look closely you can see where there are no threads, I think this is from riding the bike with a loose headset:
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Oh yeah! And there is so much more ..... LOL.

Nails used as cotter pins, mish mash of metric and standard bolts and nuts. Typical of well used bikes.

I am looking forward to the finished product though and it will be right.

I understand there is a countershaft sprocket shaft I can exchange for the tapered shaft, if this is true where would I find the part number or what Husky does it come from?

Mike
 
Thanks for the lead but $350 is a bit out of my price range.
I'll keep hoping one turns up that I can fit into the budget.

Mike
 
I have been searching for a good set of cylinder studs but have come up empty handed so then I turned to finding a shop that would make the tank look good as new....$750! I guess I'll pass on that to. For the finally I decide to start working on the rear wheel only to find the brake back plate is cracked.

Steve, you did well to miss this one!

Mike
 
Wow, that's a lot of stuff to fix. Thought the price on the conversion shaft was expensive too, but at least the part # was listed.
Steve
 
Good point there Steve, I hadn't thought of filing that part number for future reference.

A friend of mine agreed that the tank paint was pricey but then he pointed out that the whole focal point of the Husky, aside from the engine, is the tank.

I'll bite the bullet and have the tank done right. After all I have no plans of selling this bike when it is done so why not do it up right.

Mike
 
Mike,
Regarding the cylinder studs. you might try John Lefevre at Vintagehusky.com, he's come through with lots of stuff for my bike that is not listed on his site, including a set of good used cylinder studs. Has a lot of experience with rebuilding these machines. He also does the tanks. If you call him, he's always willing to talk to you and very helpful. Phone # is listed on his site.

Regarding the splined sprocket shaft, I think (but don't know for sure) that it is the same shaft that was used in some later 5 speeds (72 was the first 5 speed), so maybe a used one is a possibility. As a suggestion you might try posting the splined shaft question as a separate thread and see what responses you get. Some of the guys on here know a lot about what interchanges with what, transmission wise.

Regarding Harold (for a long time I didn't know his last name), a while back someone on another forum mentioned having bought a Montesa from Weird Harold's back in the day. Said he (Harold Goldberg) lives in Rio Rancho and still rides single track up in the Jemez Mts. I think this picture (actually a screen shot from an old video) is of Weird Harold from early 70's. Back of his helmet says Weird Harold's. Have some great memories from those days, but I apologize if I'm getting the thread off track. Looking forward to seeing the 450 as a sound running machine again. Judging by your CBX's, you certainly are capable of the workmanship necessary.
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im not a expert but i think i can make cylinder studs with a hack saw a die and good bench vice:excuseme: im i fulla poop??
 
Yep, that's Harold, I think that is Allen Holts in the shot but it has been a long time.

I'll give vintage Husky a call and see what he can do. I thought of having a set of studs turned but if I can get stock that would be great.

I worked on the 450 today, finally got the cases apart and was pleasantly surprised to find the tranny in good shape, clutch...mmmmm...not so pleasant. I cut the steering stem nut off today and that was all I could accomplish.

The old girl couldn't have handled worth a crap with a loose front end.
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Here is the pitiful clutch, I have no idea what that white fluff is, it's like a crystal of some sort.
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