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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1975 WR400 sleeve

M

mradovich

Husqvarna
AA Class
I ordered a new drop in sleeve from Rick Horvat and since I live in a rural area (no machine shop) I put the new sleeve in the snow for about 30 minutes, then I heated the cylinder in the BBQ for about ten minutes, dropped the old sleeve out with a hammer and a big punch being careful not to hit the aluminum part of the cylinder, then drove the new sleeve in with a block of wood and a hammer. I placed a long skinny bar in a vice to run threw the bottom port, re-heated the cylinder to twist the sleeve till all the ports lined up it worked pretty slick
 
You do know it still has to be bored to fit a std. piston.Maybe you can come up with a way to do that too.
 
I could put it in the mill at work and bore it but ill have a machine shop do that part of it for me, I thought I was pushing my luck with the sleeve the way I did it but it saved a $100 and a 130 mile road trip
 
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