• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 Wr250 Engine/transmission

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trashyman

Husqvarna
Hi all new member first time poster. I recently aquired my dad's old husky he had when i was a kid and I am in the beginning stages of restoring it. The engine was seized because the po left it outside for yrs w/o the air filter housing on it. Today when I split the cases the gear on the shift fork fell off and I don't know what orientation it goes in. Not sure what gear its in either. With a little time and common sence i could prob figure it out but a link to a download or a shop manual I could buy would be super helpful. A parts manual would be nice too as I have a couple of what look like small dowel pins laying on the bench. I dont think they're dowel pins but unsure where they came from. Thanks for any help.
 

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Those are the clutch engagement rollers and push rods(not shown) that go between the clutch on the left case half and and the clutch actuator in the right case half. The gear in your hand is the step feeder/ for selecting the gear. Unfortunately you have the left half off and that is the side you rebuild from. So your going to have to do a full reassembly from scratch. Your gonna need new gaskets and you might as well replace the seals and any bearing that is suspect. Good time to clean and lay it all out on a nice white towel!! Use your wifes favorite so she can enjoy the progress!!
The 74 will work for you!!
http://www.3medesign.com/technical-data.html
 
Thank you for the reply. That diagram is exactly what i needed. I see it shows 3 of those rollers but i only have two. Did i loose one in the disassembly or is it possible the 73 only had two? I have both push rods out (one at a time) and didn't even notice those rollers on the bench till later. I did take note that the two flat ends went toward each other. I will put it back together as instructed and try again tomorrow. When i took the halves apart the gear actuator shaft fell out with the step feeder gear and i'm unsure of its orientation on install. I tried putting it back together but couldn't get it to shift properly. I'm assuming the step feeder teeth mesh equally on the linkroller. New gaskets and seals are in the works as well as checking the cylinder and piston. Thanks
 
Assembling these are as easy as pie after you've done it 100 times, I'm on my 63rd assembly, got a ways to go before the pie thing. Thank god for the shop manual.
 
For a first timer it's kinda scary. Definitely doable if your mechanically inclined. I did find the 3rd roller on the floor and got it together and its shifting as it should. The only difference i found was the workshop manual is for a 5spd trans i think. Mine must be a 6spd (it's been 25yrs since I've rode it) as it has 7 detents on the shift drum. Pg 85 fig 17 shows 6 detents. I set it up according to the manual and it would not downshift from high gear. Took it apart and put two teeth on the right as opposed to the one indicated on pg 88 fig 24 and it now downshifts from high gear. As stated above, and i'm no expert, it seems logical if its a 6spd trand, putting it in 4th gear and doing one tooth to the right like the pic on pg 88 would get you the desired outcome on a 6spd. Now onto cleaning it up now that it's back to working. :cheers:
 
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