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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

76 WR360 tranny issue.

M

martinfan30

Husqvarna
B Class
Hey guys, Just helping my dad out a bit.

He has restored this bike which I rode as a kid, and is having a trans. issue.

It is locked up in any gear but fourth (direct drive).

I am a long time Toyota tech and have rebuilt many manual transmissions. I just wonder if there is any semi common problem when reassembling these gear boxes that cause problems.

Haven't looked at it yet, but I know things as simple as a gear installed backwards, or a detent missing can cause problems.

Thanks for any tips!
 
Coffee;13057 said:
Welcome Martin, it might take a couple of days but someone will probably help out.

:cheers:
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OK, cool. Thanks Dean.

I know you are used to the "Spaghetti Husky's".

No one is perfect....

:lol:
 
Couple of things to check for, because years ago, I had one of these trannys that did the very same thing. It took forever to find the issue.

1.) Make sure that you get a blow up of the whole tranny (Schematic), spacers, clips, etc..... Has to be re- assembled to the T. If one gear was put in reversed, switched, etc.... you will have this problem.

2.) Make sure that none of the shafts got bent from a gear riding up on its mating gear. Use a dial indicater in a v - block. Mine was off a couple off just .000 (Can't remember how many .000) and was the whole problem. It took forever to figure out the problem.

3.) Make sure that your shift forks and cogs are not bent or have wear indents in them.

4.) I usually assemble the tranny in one side of the cases, squirt it with oil and try to move the counter shaft while shifting through all gears. You might need to get a few other hands involved to try and keep the shafts lined up while doing this. I used to put a strip brass on a set of vice grips ( Be careful) to clamp (lightly) onto the shifter cog to move it through the gears.

5.) Make sure that you have good bearings for the shafts to ride in.

6.) If it worked before you took it apart then I would say that something was re-assembled wrong ( gear backwards, shim wrong place, etc.. .

7.) If a gear was found chipped, bearing out, and was replaced, then the chip or any foreign matter got (Could of ) between the gears and bent a shaft ( Doesn't take much). Make sure that if gear was replaced, it was the correct gear.
 
OK, thanks for the info. I'm getting into it this weekend.

Actually I'm in Northern Nevada, but thanks for the tips man!

I'll let you know what I find.:thumbsup:
 
Got it!!!:applause:

It was a bent shift fork, the left side fork on the rear cluster.

Replaced with a spare one from another tranny and we are golden!

Thank you sir.:cheers:
 
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