• 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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    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

1973 400 Cross - Frame And Piston

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Barks

Husqvarna
B Class
First time posting on here. Anyone seen a frame mod and a piston like this before? Hope you can see the photos. It was originally a Motorcorp West bike. Shipped in late 73.
 

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That was frame mod done to increase rear wheel travel. Many 74 and earlier bikes were done like that back in the mid 70's. That piston mod was probably done to use with a reed valve kit as the 73 Huskys were originally piston port motors. GEM was a popular aftermarket reed valve kit back then. Looks like the cylinder has a reed valve kit installed. Looks like a fun project!

Marty
 
Thanks. The engine is rebuilt and sounds great. The frame was bent so that had to be fixed. It had a right whack at some point.
 
It almost runs/sounds like a fuel injected bike. I’ve tried to upload a clip but can’t seem to do it. Only one piston ring as well.
 
Barks said:
It almost runs/sounds like a fuel injected bike. I’ve tried to upload a clip but can’t seem to do it. Only one piston ring as well.
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a simple way to do it is create a video, Rumble or youtube, there are photo ads you can upload videos to also, then post a link
 
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