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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

'71 400 Cross resto

Finally catching up on reading about your endeavor. Your bike is going to be killer nice when you finish.

I find the dishwasher an excellent cleaning tool myself and the works great for curing paint and installing bearings.

If I ever built a shop I think I would have to incorporate and oven.

Keep posting your work can't wait to see the finished project.

Mike
 
I have my frame, swingarm and various other silver parts back from the painters, took them two goes to get it right, 4 months waiting and a ridiculous bill to pay (yet to be decided upon....) but i have something to assemble!
pics to follow
 
So i'm sorting all my fasteners and trying to figure out what goes where.....

Can anyone tell me what the thread is on the brake actuation rod please? mine didn't have a wing nut it had a nyloc but i'm having trouble with the thread, is it 7mm? or imperial?
cheers
 
nope, tried a 6mm and 8mm, it's in between, there's paint on the threads which i've tried getting off with a copper brush, it's helped but i think i need a die to clean it up properly, not game to use the wrong pitch or size though.....
 
Just went out to the garage and checked my 1970, 6mm nut threads right on. '71 should be the same according to the parts manual. :excuseme:
Steve
 
nice one, with both saying it's 6mm i'll go cut the thread with my die, it's obviously just a build up of paint then.

Thanks guys.
 
i do, i used it on the end of the rod to clean up the thread to get a start and thought i'd be fine, i'm wary because it's long and thin with new paint and i'm a clumsy fucker!

Anyway, it would seem mine has a 1/4" UNC thread on it! dunno why, looks original but who knows? the wing nut spins on like a charm, so problem solved. i would have thought it was metric but hey, 44 years and anything could have been done to it!
 
The brake pull rods on the originals were clear zinc plated, not painted the frame color. Sorry for the late chime in, but yours should look just fine.
 
aww crap! the plater i've been using is a pain in the backside! his work varies from good to rubbish for no reason so i'm not sure i want to attempt changing it.

but if it's not right........
 
loony888 said:
aww crap! the plater i've been using is a pain in the backside! his work varies from good to rubbish for no reason so i'm not sure i want to attempt changing it.

but if it's not right........
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Just get you a metric 6mm stainless steel rod. Heat end and bend it for brake lever pedal and thread the other end.

$9 bux but sure you could get it there.

You kinda have to use a file to under size it a lil for length of thread area and chamfer the end to get the die started.

http://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-stainless-steel-rods/=ziozfw
 
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