• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

I've removed the other Rad and am getting the bottom bracket altered so I can rotate the rad and hopefully drop the shroud under the tank. Fingers crossed****************************************

Couldn't really see any other way. :excuseme: Looks to have been a problem for years as the tank is marked where the shroud has been rubbing it.
 
Just picked up an 84 LC 400 as well. If the Vin #s are correct then it is an 84, because in 85 the numbers are like Husqvarna1 190001 on ( in think) there is a vin # lookup on here somewhere.
Noticed you have white forks. Was this on all 84 bikes? Not sure....:excuseme:
 
take your top front brake arm and weld a piece in and extend it a cm or two (half - 3/4 inch)so the cable is just shy of the stay arm...helps with brake pull considerably!

Unless you need the sidecovers for numbers, I would get an old pair and cut away the square bit and leave the shocks hanging out in space, looks great!(IMO) especially with the CR guard.
 
Thanks!!

Just fitted a new carb with Husky spec internals. Need to fix the gearbox issue first then move on to the fueling/electrics. The 4 laps I did were pretty gentle as there are a lot of new parts on the engine!!

bike was handling well and power felt usable just not smooth and constant. Almost a 'pulsing' feeling.
 
go to be electrics? or fuel starvation? how is the tap flow? is the tank breather ok? air screw set 1.5 to 2 turns out? float level high enough? etc etc. Pulsing is not synonymous with WR 400s...
 
A little update:

Regarding the neutral and jumping into gear issue have had the engine apart...right apart!! :mad:

The gear drum spring and ball bearing had 'jammed' :confused:. A very slight burred edge caused the issue....

While motor was out of frame It was easier to time the Electrex setup so that's spot on now too.

Bike is back together (complete with a new Sudco VM 38 carb) and starting first kick, something it was not doing before. :cheers:

Now need some better weather to give it a run out and bed the engine in.
 
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