• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

1986 510

mhe777

Husqvarna
Hi, joined today, wonder if any one can help me. I've picked up an air cooled four stroke, engine number 2082 0410 which I believe is a 1986 510 4S. It's in a thousand pieces and while searching for parts I only come across 4T components. Can anyone explain the difference between 4S and 4t? Also, when looking for frame parts how interchangeable are they, was there one frame with different engines capacities? Undoubtable this will be a long project and it's only the beginning. Thanks.
 
The most help will to be use the search function as I recall a bunch of stuff.

Is the t for tempo and s for stroke as in four stroke around here and four tempo like a conductor in front of an orchestra in europe? the te was roughly comparable to the wr two stroke, there are xc and cr versions of the two strokes that probably have letter designations for the four stroke. This would be mostly suspention, rear brake, ignition module, tank size. There are downloadable parts sheets to spend hours wandering through. The four strokes in that year have a straight front down tube where the two strokes have a fork. There is only one size four stroke in this section. There may be some variaton in the rear over the fender and where the floating rear brake rod goes. That is the best I can do at the moment.

Fran
 
Here’s a thread I started a few years back on my 1986 Husky 510 4-stroke project bike, should be something in there that could help, as mine was a heap too.

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/1986-husky-510-4-stroke-project-bike.6708/

The 2nd part of the project was when I put the motor into a dual shock frame, I created another thread

1986 510 4stroke twin shock project phase #2

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/1986-510-4stroke-twin-shock-project-phase-2.16396/#post-143895


Great group of guys :applause: here have fun.. and as you'll read my 510 project when on for over 2 years
but boy was it worth it........... Husky John
 
Hi, joined today, wonder if any one can help me. I've picked up an air cooled four stroke, engine number 2082 0410 which I believe is a 1986 510 4S. It's in a thousand pieces and while searching for parts I only come across 4T components. Can anyone explain the difference between 4S and 4t? Also, when looking for frame parts how interchangeable are they, was there one frame with different engines capacities? Undoubtable this will be a long project and it's only the beginning. Thanks.

Could be a nomenclature issue, in UK a lot of people word there ads 2t(=2 stroke) 4t(=4 stroke) where manufactures made both with similar parts?
 
4S= 4 stroke, english.
4T= 4 takt, germanic languages
4T= 4 tempi/tempo, Latin languages.
Same thing, different tongues.

All suspension, wheels and gearboxes interchangable 1986. Beware 85 and 87 had different rear linkages and shock mountings to 86.

Good luck, i love my 86 510.
 
PEZBerg on this forum has rebuilt a 85 / 510 and he's in Queensland.
Might be worth getting in touch although I think he's overseas at the moment.
 
Show us a picture of just what you have, and we will try and identify any missing items for you!
The parts manual is available free of charge somewhere on here or on our site at www.hva-factory.com in the Catalogues and Manuals section.

Hope this helps!

Andy Elliott.
 
Here’s a thread I started a few years back on my 1986 Husky 510 4-stroke project bike, should be something in there that could help, as mine was a heap too.

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/1986-husky-510-4-stroke-project-bike.6708/

The 2nd part of the project was when I put the motor into a dual shock frame, I created another thread

1986 510 4stroke twin shock project phase #2

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/1986-510-4stroke-twin-shock-project-phase-2.16396/#post-143895


Great group of guys :applause: here have fun.. and as you'll read my 510 project when on for over 2 years
but boy was it worth it........... Husky John
I am looking for an igniton for the 510. Any suggestions,
Thanks,
John
 
Early 500/10 with conventional flywheel have crankpin taper that can take other older motoplats. Ive used one off some Montessa or the other and it works fine.
Later models with inverted flywheel and stators mounted in cover and larger taper, not too sure for a match.
Measure diameter of your crankpin on the side close to flywheel nut and check for match with older huskies which had the medium and large shaft tapers.
 
husqyham can you explain the differneces in linkages or ideally post a pic. showing this? I have a 86 a/c frame/ motor but a couple of differing swingarms and unidentified linkages . any comments on what works the best too?
 
Most of the differences in 86 Swing Arms relate to if it is a Motocross or an Enduro bike. The MX bikes have a floating rear brake plate with a tie rod to the frame near the right footrest. The Enduro bikes have a slotted brakeplate that does not float as the suspension moves. The Enduro set up is more reliable, as the floating brake plate is an item that wears badly. Check out a parts manual to identify what you have....
Andy.
 
I have enduro swingarm(s)
Still curious as to linkage differences

Andy are your ignitions the inverted style or stator is mounted to crankcases?
 
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