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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1973 450WR not shifting right

Good job sticking with it and figuring it out.
I had the same problem once, turned out to be my own doing.
I put a distance washer in the wrong place on the main shaft.
 
Glad to hear you got it figured out, and thanks for posting your findings. I'm sure your experience will be helpful to others.
 
I rebuild vintage Husky engines/transmissions. You can never be sure who has done what to these old motors, but after doing a bunch you get to know as you disassemble them, how things go back together. In most transmissions, there are only two washers that you can easily get confused about. One washer goes under the shifting barrel, and the other one sits on top of the shifting shaft. When you pull out the shifting barrel you don't notice the washer because it blends in with the case. But it's there. When I disassemble I make sure to put a zip tie on each component as well and on the ends of the counter shaft and main shaft assemblies so I don't forget. Another thing I have found helpful is to put all the transmission components in one baggie, the clutch components in another. Glad to hear you found the thick washer and replaced it and solved the problem. Both of these washers are the same thickness. Hope this helps.
 
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