• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

1985 250 XC

86 400 XC said:
I do know the 87 TE and maybe the 87 TX have the 1986 small pad floating rotor front brake still.
So not all 87s have the solid mounted rotor with bigger pad caliper.
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you are correct, the 4 strokes were always a year behind
85 they were still twin shock
 
86 400 XC said:
Technically the both styles have 2 pistons :thumbsup:
Solid mounted calipers on any car or bike have a piston per pad.
You can not run a floating caliper and floating rotor. The flutter in the rotor will knock the pads back too far when not in use and the first application on the brake will be like a brake pedal going to the floor. Scary.
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So a floating disk won't flutter and knock the piston back in a fixed caliper ?
Is that what you are saying ?
 
It does a little, takes a extra pull to get firm. The other reason why i changed them.
Its normal for a piston to retrack a little, thats what the square sealing O rings do on the piston to reduce drag.
They early set up rattles and moves around alot, the caliper with slides dont move easy so never get lose in the pads.
 
the above is true..i mainly dislike the single piston brembo because it lacks stopping power...its weaker than a properly set up dls drum.
 
Justin is dead nuts on point with the 85/86 ft brembo disc set up. DLS smokes it in stopping power. 87 twin piston way better also.
 
I'd been pretty sick with bronchitis, but I did get the rear shock serviced. Buddy who used to wrench for the old Dirt Works Husqvarna-KTM shop that was once in North Jackson, OH took care of it.

Found the radiators are bent, and many of the rubber mounts are shot. Missing the front brake pad pin too and I'm having a heck of a time sourcing one.

I'll try to get some progress pics up soon. Appreciate the input and suggestions thus far.
 
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