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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1986 430ae Deja vu

husky jim said:
Dave,
I would be interested in seeing your way of protecting the cases from the clutch spings.
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Jim:
I think my current project 430 had one, let me check. Michel seems like he has some good models. The broken springs I've had seem to break at the ends. So, a full cover might be better to hold the spring in place. I've only seen them break for 1st gear, not 2nd or 3rd. Although I suppose that's possible.

NOS springs from Husky were color coded for different spring rates so I think you can mix up the combinations, to change shift points.
Thanks.
Dave
 
About oil, Univis HVI 26 like a lot of riders.
About 1st clutch spring cover.
The full cover keeps the big broken spring part but the little
part still goes in the motor.
So I glued on the crankcases a big magnet to catch the little part.
 
everfree said:
Stormer:
Nice 430. Just like they should look.

What's your thoughts on the 430 AE?
Thanks.
Dave
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I love it, loads of power, good suspension and a brake that works, the only bit that scares me is how I am going to keep it running with the difficulty in sourcing spares.
 
Does any one know of an after market ignition for a better power supply to run a radiator fan.
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These are good
http://www.powerdynamo.biz/deu/systems/lists/husqvarna.php

Also does any one know of some sort of transmission
cooler for the auto box as I'd like to find a way of cooling the trans.
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Just google or ebay search for 'oil cooler' or 'transmission oil cooler' or 'pit bike oil cooler'
Theres heaps out there. Lockhart were good ones from that period.
A lot of automotive performance shops will sell them as well as specialist hydraulic/cooling places.

You would need a filter as well, all the crap that goes round in an auto box would destroy a pump
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Earls and K&N etc make specialist in line oil filters to protect the pumps. Again, not impossible to find.

some shown here
http://97.74.32.155/files/pump.pdf
 
husky jim said:
Not alot of progress since I had the new bearings presses in awhile back. I plan on getting back to work on it after the holidays.
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Jim,
Did you ever finish restoring this 430 AE?

I'm about to buy a 86 430 AE, so I'm researching all the old Auto threads.

Would be interested to see how your bike turned out. Maybe it's in another thread I missed?
Thanks.
Dave
 
everfree said:
Jim,
Did you ever finish restoring this 430 AE?

Still working on it. It's been on the back burner since I bought a new wr300 and started updating my other 430wr. I did manage to come up with several Nos spare drums, shoes, and springs for both 1st and 2nd-3rd gears. At this point, I have everything ready to put the bike back together except for having the new crank seals installed.
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Finding NOS drums, shoes and springs is good, you have all the important wear parts.

The bikes take constant attention don't they? Always something to work on.
 
Finally got organized with my stuff and projects in one spot, getting back on track to finish up on both bikes.
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