• 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.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

'73 400CR gearbox issues

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O'Gan

Husqvarna
B Class
Hello, folks. Thanks for all the knowledge I've gleaned off this site.
I just rebuilt my recently purchased 1973 400CR. I put new bearings and seals in the bottom end. I got it together, and it started straight away. I started off, and first gear seemed pretty tall. As I shifted to "second", it was like neutral. Then it would shift to third, fourth and fifth. I spoke to the gentleman I've bought some parts from, and he suspected I timed the transmission incorrectly. So I broke it back down, and reassembled the transmission. I set the ratchet sleeve in the 3rd gear position (4th detent), and set the step feeder so two cogs were visible to the left of the link roller, and one cog visible to the right. I'm not sure if I did this corectly the first time. The second time, I set it correctly. Before putting the engine back in the bike, I tried to bench-test the shifting. This proved to be challenging. I unscrewed the ratchet sleeve to attempt to view the link roller detents. I'm suspicious that the link roller moved while I did this. I put it all back together, and I have the same shifting issue.
When I shift into what I think should be first, the bike travels as though it's in second. I can then raise the shifter into what seems like neutral. Then I raise the shifter again, and it goes into another "neutral". Then it'll shift into third, fourth and fifth. I'm about to break it all down again, but I hope someone may have some idea of what I'm missing here.
Thanks,
Damon
Austin, TX
 
Heres a service bulliten I shared with someone else having 450 shifting problems. Although I don't think it helped him with his shifting problem it may help your situation. Other than that I would recommend double checking an exploded view of the trans to make sure all shims and shifting forks are in the right place.
 

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Thanks again for sharing that bulletin. My shifter seems to return just fine, so I don't think that's the issue, but I'll double check it.
 
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