• 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.

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1983 125xc big bore

G

gahendo

Husqvarna
A Class
Hey guys my dad has one of these and is planning on restoring it. He put on a husky big bore kit when it was new and wanted to keep it as a 175 but cant find any information on the kit. Does anyone know what the piston is pr have any information about it? He is trying to get this one done so he can start on bis next lol.

Thanks
 
Thats what he had heard they are impossible to get. I think my brother seized the 175 kit along time ago,my dad is on a kick to get all his huskies going again. Ill search the forum for the thread.
 
gahendo said:
Hey guys my dad has one of these and is planning on restoring it. He put on a husky big bore kit when it was new and wanted to keep it as a 175 but cant find any information on the kit. Does anyone know what the piston is pr have any information about it? He is trying to get this one done so he can start on bis next lol.

Thanks
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There are no pistons for the kit. Husky used an off the shelf piston from another engine (some think it was not from a motorcycle, possibly a scooter or a generator), Dick Burleson and Mark Hyde developed the kit, but neither of them can remember what piston they used. The 1983 production 175 used a different Husky made piston and there are basically none of them either. There is one piston/ring/wrist pin set on eBay right now for $300, if your dad really wants one this might be the last one left that me and Joe Chod dont already own. You can use the 83 piston in a kit bike, all you have to do is remove the spacer plate under the cylinder that came with the kit. Once that piston wears out, you will be dead in the water and will have to put a 125 top end on it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1983-HUSQVARNA-175XC-OEM-PISTON-KIT-RINGS-PIN-AND-CLIPS-/331773668582?
 
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