• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 WR 400 suspension plan

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Ventabular

Husqvarna
B Class
IMG_20220413_133104592ktmforks.jpgIMG_20220413_132948792huskyster.jpgIMG_20220413_132933262huskysuz.jpgIMG_20220413_133046668huskyframe.jpg After going through my forks, I decided not use them. The damper rods are damaged by
the P.O.s' shortening attempt, by leaving a spring, and a shim just slopping around. They left a serious divot. I would think that they would be secured at the upper end.
I have a complete front end from a 98' Suzuki RM 125 ready to go. Same bearings, same headstock length.
After doing all the usual mods to a set of 03' WP KTM forks for my KTM 200. Stock they truly sucked. I improved them a lot but they still were not that good.
So I rebuilt the RM Suzuki forks, but left the shimming stock. They upped my speed because because they lessened the fear factor. I can hit shit now that I could never before think about. The deflection is gone and the wheel follows the ground amazingly well across the smaller square stuff. The 96' to 98' 49mm dual chambers have a bit of a cult following. They are that good., IMO as good as the SSS forks on my 14' YZ 250. I want to use them on the Husky, rather than chase parts, and they are paid for! My question: Can I lengthen the rear 16.5" WR Ohlin's to match?
 
I have found an 85' CR single shock swingarm on EBAY with a chain guide that resmbles
modern bikes. It looks stock. Also includes a brake stay.
I also found an 86' CR 400 linkage for a reasonable price.
What I need to know is, what else is needed besides a backing plate?
Secondly, is this modification worthwhile?
This all started with the idea of welding a modern chain guide to what I have.
 
Ventabular said:
I have found an 85' CR single shock swingarm on EBAY with a chain guide that resmbles
modern bikes. It looks stock. Also includes a brake stay.
I also found an 86' CR 400 linkage for a reasonable price.
What I need to know is, what else is needed besides a backing plate?
Secondly, is this modification worthwhile?
This all started with the idea of welding a modern chain guide to what I have.
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they use a different hub entirely, brake width is different and the floating backing plate contact point is different
 
Ventabular said:
I have found an 85' CR single shock swingarm on EBAY with a chain guide that resmbles
modern bikes. It looks stock. Also includes a brake stay.
I also found an 86' CR 400 linkage for a reasonable price.
What I need to know is, what else is needed besides a backing plate?
Secondly, is this modification worthwhile?
This all started with the idea of welding a modern chain guide to what I have.
Click to expand...


https://www.ebay.com/itm/353316030685?hash=item524346c8dd:g:esEAAOSwbYZXT5f3

is this the one you are calling an 85 CR swingarm?
 
Ventabular said:
I can forgo the floating brake. What about using the CR linkage?
Do I then need them CR swingarm?
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the CR swingarm and brake link are not connected like the one on fleabay
it is a parallel link attached to the frame and the backing plate so it floats with the frame
 
I should say for the record what I did with the front end. In the opening post I put a picture
With KTM 50mm triples. They bolted right in with the KTM bearings. I am ready to install Suzuki forks.
KTM offset is very close to original Husky. I also have a set of 49mm Suzuki triples that I could easily use with different bearings and races. Suzuki offset is about 3mm greater.
So if somebody comes along a few years from now wanting to swap forks, KTM bolts on to old Husky.
Same with USD forks.
 
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