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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

500 + 240 / 250 / 360 / 390 / 400 & 430 ConRods!!!

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Just got off of an Airplane from a visit to our con-rod factory to collect 500cc Rods and see the first samples of the 'other' Husky rods that are well under way!!!

We now also have oversize crank pins and a fresh supply of big and small end bearings for all the rods.

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Thanks for the comments! Regarding price - you will have to go on the site to find out! Sorry they are not cheaper, but having small batches of parts like these is always going to be expensive. If they last as well as the NOS rods we have / have had, they should be the last one you need to buy****************************************
Regarding shipping - DHL have made the world a whole lot smaller for us, and (I may be tempting fate here - but), they have yet to loose one of our parcels!

Andy Elliott.
 
I found your site and the rod kit for the 500. I see the more modern features which might actually temp me to rebuild the last variant without the lube holes. http://www.hva-factory.com/crankshaft-top-end/husqvarna-500-con-rod-kit-1982-1988. Maybe it has been discussed here before but wasn't 87 really the last 500.

I found what I think is the pin slightly oversize for the standard shift bikes which for me with plenty of used auto cranks would be more sensible for anything else. http://www.hva-factory.com/crankshaft-top-end/husqvarna-crank-pin-dia-2503mm-x-58mm-long

The only big end bearing I found was for 28mm
http://www.hva-factory.com/bottom-end-gearbox/husqvarna-big-end-needle-roller-bearing-see-dimensions

While nice and beautiful these are machined from billet not forged. The origionals have heat induced coloring at either end. I just guess this is from putting that end in some electric device that makes current go back and forth so much that it gets hot and then quenched in a liquid substance.

Another puzzling thing is that The rod kit picture I linked above is on cagiva moto morini origional plastic bag.
 
Yes - don't know why the bag is even in the photo!!!

The rods are of course fully heat treated, but the 'blueing' that you get on NOS Husky rods is because they never cleaned it off!

I have added the big end bearing, but our server will not show it for a little while...

Andy.
 
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