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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1984 WR400 help

suprize said:
it all depends on your forestry situation. the us spec mufflers are vastly different to aus spec. in aus, they were straight core to the end cap, no springs, no spiral or cone arrestor, no dinger on the end. probably Europe spec as well. they go well like that.
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Interesting thing about the spark arrestor that I could never figure.
Firefighting Experts in the USofA say that they have seen MANY fires started by bikes with no spark arrestors.
Here in Australia we don't have them and have never heard of a fire started by a bike.
Strange.
Probably a different type of bush .
 
politics...mainly I think. bikes were an easy target. although a spot of hot carbon on a bed of dried pine needles could be seen to be an issue....
 
muffler is set to arrive tuesday.... probably due to thanksgiving this week. dying to get it. fresh packing and paint awaits it.

getting a call back from halls cycle today on ordering headlight and tail light bulbs.

hoping to test ride next wednesday
 
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here is the exhaust made from the original ends with an 80mm aluminium body and 25mm pipe.
 
I had to massage the ends and the tube as it was a very tight fit, its 6000 series seamless aluminium that i use for work 80mm,63mm,50mm and 40mm.its expensive but i get plenty of off cuts.
 
Muffler arrived today. It's s bit different. Got a little turbine looking end cap. I couldn't disassemble it to repack it. I think the baffle is welded on this one as well. Guess I'll just run it??
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They seem to be quite different to the ones here in aus, is there access to get packing into it.you can buy the packing in a form similar to spaghetti but every exhaust i have ever looked at you could pull out the core and re wrap with sheets of packing.the second photo is what i was trying to describe as fix for your broken pipe.can the insert in the second photo be removed looks like the core should come out in the direction of flow.
 
Right, I can't pull the Swiss cheese pipe out in the direction of flow (or either direction for that matter). If you look at the first pic it looks to be almost welded in, in the same spot my old one did. But this is okay since the new one isn't broken. I just can't repack it. I have packing in hand ready to go though. Maybe I'll just run it for now and see how the bike goes. I should be test riding thursday
 
That looks the same as the one I have fitted to my old twin shock KLX250 (long story). The spring, complete with the small plate (with the 3 spot welds) should just lift out. It is probably a bit seized in there due to carbon build up and rust. Mine was a bitch to get out. Once that is out of the way you can hook out the packing material. The inner perforated tube stays in there and does not come out.
 
thanks grouty..... so that changes things if the tube doesnt come out. its certainly tough to pull on a sping to get that stuck plate out without deforming the spring!
 
Try twisting it as you pull. Or see if you can grip what is sticking out of the plate, as I guess it is stuck to the end of the tube with rust, old congealed oil and carbon.
 
grouty said:
Try twisting it as you pull. Or see if you can grip what is sticking out of the plate, as I guess it is stuck to the end of the tube with rust, old congealed oil and carbon.
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i will. i sprayed it last night with penetrant so well see
 
that's a California model with the spark arrestor in the end. I managed to break the welds on the inner section and remove the packing and perforated core and replace it with a full length pref tube.

it should go ok for you tho as that looks pretty clean.

if the bike is running clean and producing 80-90 % full rated power you should blow off any 450 four bangers about (just) my 400 level pegs the kato 500 four strokes.

so don't hop on and crack the throttle in the back yard or you will have a husky and rider shaped hole in the fence....
 
hahaha those were the responses i was hoping to hear. just making sure that the technology factor wouldnt come into play too much
 
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