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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1978 390 Auto build

Seems a bit complicated, fabricate cable holder, fix to engine sprocket guard, attach cable to top of foot brake lever, position on the lever will determine strength of braking.
 
I have already thought of that Steve. Kerry even dropped me over another rear brake lever to experiment on. The only thing I think about with that idea is it getting in the way of my boot ! I intend to try both mad schemes !
I am in the mood to think laterally tonight :-)
 
Had a good afternoon ! I collected the barrel from the re-bore .... had to go up a whole 1mm to get rid of the distortion.
Free time this evening, so managed to get barrel cleaned, studs in, gasket sorted, new Kawasaki small end bearing in.
Just putting the last wrist pin circlip in and ..... ping ! ..... off it goes across the workshop :-(
Spent 1/2 hour looking for it. Gave up, put kids to bed. Opened bottle of red wine. What would be your favourite expletive ....
 
BTDT****************************************
Years ago ....quick front sprocket change before a sunday ride with a cupla mates and Ping....ting (other side of shed) boing..(behind me somewhere??) and plink! (in the pile of parts!!) never found it, they went with out me...:cry:
 
suprize said:
BTDT
Years ago ....quick front sprocket change before a sunday ride with a cupla mates and Ping....ting (other side of shed) boing..(behind me somewhere??) and plink! (in the pile of parts!!) never found it, they went with out me...:cry:
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Think i have about 20 spares, bought a bunch of parts for 80s bikes in 1 box of goodies. Had tons of cool parts. Even had 20 water pump snap rings and 5 new impellers.
 
I hate that and have done the exact same thing!
Wait till you look for wrench for couple hours and it is right in front of you or it's in your back pocket.
 
I rekon there is a brain function that puts the shape of the tool you are looking for in your eyes but colors it with background! so that when you look at it, the shape covers it perfectly and you don't see it:mad: . you have to leave the shed and come back to refresh the shape and see that your missing tool is right where you looked 3 times:confused: ....! im sure!!
 
Usually by the time I get to the house from the workshop I forget what I am there for and walk back to the barn to jog the memory again. Some of the above is why I am carefully looking when I am sweeping the shop floor
 
Moving on from the weekend issue ! .... good old HVA Factory to the rescue. A new pair of clips.
I found that the second clip did not seat correctly in the groove in the piston. I asked Andy to confirm the original dia of the wire used on the Wossner clip I had with the piston. They are 1.24 dia. I removed the piston tonight, checked the original one and that was spot on at 1.24 dia. Refit everything again (just to make sure I was not being stupid) along with one of the new clips. It still won't seat nicely in the groove. As they both fit perfectly on their own without the wrist pin they must be correct. The only thing I can think is the piston pin must be a couple of thou too long. Anyone else come across this issue ?
The pin came with the piston and is genuine Wossner. I like to be fussy about the internals of my engines.
 
Put it in drill press and use sanding block or real fine file followed by real fine sand paper?
Wrap pin in masking tape so you have a line to sand down to. Can't be much.
Also use masking tape around pin or copper tubing cut, so you don't mark up pin when tightening chuck?
 
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