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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

390 Wr Restoration

R

Rick60

Husqvarna
AA Class
After an attack of nostalgia I picked up this little beauty about a month ago. I've been making some progress finding missing parts and refurb-ing the parts that are there. I've been reading the posts on this site and I am pretty amazed at the wealth of info here about these old bikes.

Something I've been wondering about is why the rear brake pedal / rod / link is different on the WR than it is on the CR? $(KGrHqN,!hcE7Us5BVm2BO-c4P6bMQ~~60_12.jpg
 
CR;s have a floating rear brake. The backing plate has a bushing to allow it to rotate and the brake stay attaches to the frame.
 
Ron said:
CR;s have a floating rear brake. The backing plate has a bushing to allow it to rotate and the brake stay attaches to the frame.
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But why is it different? Why did they go to the trouble of making different parts.
 
The floating backing plate does not apply torque to the swingarm when the brakes are applied. In turn it allows the rear suspension to move freely while braking. Why the CR's and not the XC's and WR's, you got me?
I rode an 83 250XC for years and truthfully can't feel the difference.
 
It looks like a '79 or '80 because of the airbox. If the frame number begins with "MM" its a '79 and if it's "MN" its a '80. You can find a lot of the missing parts on Ebay.
 
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