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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
1986 400 Xc Rebuild
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86 400 XC
Husqvarna
Pro Class
What a blast, first little ride was an hour long. Made a little vid.
86 400 XC
Husqvarna
Pro Class
86 400 XC
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Was looking around at foot pegs and decided to rework mine, i add a nice 1/8 flat stock around it.
Cut some teeth on them and welded them in
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Then i bought some new bearings to make a new chain guide, these use a 8mm bolt.
Made it a touch longer and wider, the old one was draging on the chain a lot.
Found another use for my tranny jack, its good for 450 lbs
and found a nice stand at princessauto for $75
Puckerbush
Husqvarna
AA Class
Wildebeest90210
Husqvarna
AA Class
Thats an amazing picture, when I'm not not messing with old motorcycles I mess about with old film cameras. Thats a great shot of the track , wish I'd taken it !!Got my new personalized license plate today and got the bike loaded.
Going to the track right here in town Saturday.
Hope to get some video, going to let the wife this time try working the camera.
Using synthetic is only an issue if the container has "Energy Conserving" in the API label on the back of the oil container. That means it has anti-friction modifiers that will make a wet clutch slip. I have run Castrol Syntec 20-50 in my 2004 Road Star Midnight for the last 15000 miles and it has never slipped unless I feather it myself. On 2 strokes that do not lube the top end like 4 strokes I have been told you can use ATF for just clutch and tranny
86 400 XC
Husqvarna
Pro Class
After a few rides i started to hate them old bars, they are bent in too much.
So i went for some fat boy bars and went with ktm/kaw style handle bar clamp.
I had to make a 1/2 riser to make the long bolt adapt.
Back when i was picking up the clamps i saw some XR wide foot pegs on the wall
So i went back with one of mine to see how close it was to the Husky.
With a little cut off the frame tube and left an angle on it. The pegs were fitting.
So i capped the tube with a weld, touched it up the with some paint.
Best part they only cost 50.00 bucks
86 400 XC
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Was feeling way to soft up front, like saggy springs.
when i did the forks seals i thought the top cap went on to easy, no preload on the springs.
I saw a spacer on top of the spring and in the back of my mind i was thinking valve spring from a car.
so to today i took the spacer out and threw in a spring from one of my turbo 2.3 ohc Ford heads.
Fit right in and left out the spacer, that gave it some nice preload, i cranked up the rear shock spring a bit the get the balance back.
It sure feels better, going riding tonite to see what its like.
Any thoughts on this quick fix?
