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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1976 WR 360 - Atlanta GA

BobbyKRussell

BobbyKRussell

Husqvarna
Hey there everyone this is my first post here, but I have been lurking around for a while on the forums getting as much information as I can about my recently acquired Husky.

I have recently started a full restore on my 1976 WR 360 that I purchased at Barber Vintage last October. I rode the ole girl a few times before the engine seized up so I decided to go ahead and do a full restore so I could race this bike eventually in AHRMA races here in the south. Here is a photo of the bike before I started this process:

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I have the manual downloaded and have learned a lot thanks to this forum but I am finally at the point where I am in need of some specific help, and would love some input so here goes.



At the moment I have my bike completely apart and engine cases split. I have had the frame powder coated and even ordered a brand new top end from Millennium Technologies. They re-plated the old head and I have brand new pistons etc for the bike.Super great company and the work they have done is flawless. Ive gone through and replaced fork seals, wheel bearings and I am in the process of lacing up the new wheels.

Here is the frame at the moment:

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Anyway my question at the moment is this.
Will a CR Engine Case work as a direct replacement for a WR engine case?
I ask because upon investigating the cases I have found some concerning damage and I am having a hard time locating a good WR 360 case. If I swap out the transmission and bolt on my new top end / crank will a CR 250 bottom end work?

Here is the damage I have found to the kick starter and bottom end :


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Any thoughts on the matter would be super helpful! Or if you happen to be selling a WR 360 bottom end that would be even better ;)
 
I would think the cases would interchange between 1975 & 1976 but watch out for the front engine mount on later(upto 1979 390) as it started as single bolt then transitioned to 2 bolt. Not really a big issue but would require updated front engine mounts.

Using a 250CR will not likely work because there are different centercase gaskets between the 250 and 360 models(larger flywheels on 360)
 
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