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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

79 CR 250 rebuild

I ordered a "big boy" American made Dennis Stubbelfield puller...lost confidence in the puller I have when the wrench would move and the puller didnt...I have a 33mm Stubbelfield for my 72 and it looks unbreakable...wont feel nervous about using a breaker bar if i have to on the Stubblefield.....Lets talk crank pullers now...anyone use the Tusk Crank Puller on a non primary kick bike like my 79?...i know i can stack spacers/sockets but would rather use a proper tool since this is my first time and am trying to avoid screwing up to the point disgust...
thanks
bob

Death From Above before you ask..
Came in 6th in class today in the enduro...8 seconds out of 5th, 2 minutes out of 4th, and 12 minutes out of 3rd...first and second were light years ahead of me in enduro time...
 
Hey Squid, awesome showing! I have been doing so many things, I have not enjoyed the travel and the thinking that It's about the time you spend on the bike. I will do better. I will pm you about the endure and how to do it.
 
I have only worked on the 72 450. But the pusher that you need to separate the motor you have I think is available from Halls ask for Bob. He is awesome and knows the fiche.
 
Cases are split...they actually came apart pretty easily....Some Mag Rot in the right side case...also found some nasty bits.. cant see where they came from..i don't see anything sheered in the tranny or the clutch...I would think it would be easy to find where it came from since they are pretty big pieces...update shift forks scored...i wonder if the scoring on the one on the far right was from the metal I found?
Bob

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Hey Squid, looking good! All opened up, nice. Those marks on your shift fork on the left are strange, can you take a closer pic and of both sides? The 1st and 2nd fork wear look normal but the one on the right is less obvious. The little material/rot missing in the bottom of the right cover is nominal as long as it's not thru to the other side. And I would check the depth. Now those pieces of metal... I can't think of where they lived before they were found, but if I was you, I would check every dog and contact point in the trans and clutch/kick side of the motor. I missed the tell tale sign of a gear popping out, the shift fork being forced out of position and getting too hot in the process, and the dog edges were rounded. Also make sure the fork shafts are straight and the bosses they live in are not out of round. Good luck. I'm getting ready to tune another 450 crank. Also got the generator motor almost complete. :cheers: Projects!
 
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I saw one on ebay and it looked the same, I'll see if I can post a pic.
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yeah...saw that also...the search continues....it really looks like a piece of spring...cylindrical and about the same diameter...only thing i can think of is the PO snapped a spring and replaced it with out getting the pieces out?
 
When I got the 450 together for the first time, I was running it on the dock outside the shop and all the sudden it stalled and ran and stalled. I restarted it and it stalled again. I took the covers off and found some metal in the teeth of the primary and clutch ring gear after pulling the plug and chain so I could rotate the assembly, I was like WTF. So I picked the metal out and tore the motor down and could not find one thing missing, broken or dented. That motor was brand new clean when assembled. So the moral is... some SOB must have put that in the motor while I wasn't looking, what a dick!! Clean it and reassemble with known good parts and you should be fine.
 
I'm wondering if the PO snapped the kick start return spring or a shift spring and couldn't find the pieces of the old one..it does look like a piece of spring...couple of mm long and the same diameter
 
Hey Squid, It looks like it could be a spring part , and if running a race they might have forgotten about a broken part of a spring in the bottom of the case and went on.
 
Took the CR out for its first ride to verify transmission and clutch operation..Tranny shifted fine through all gears ...clutch engagement is real late almost all of the way out...interesting ride with absolutely NO BRAKES!...now on to the suspension and finally some paint and plastics..

View: https://youtu.be/Z9GJkbbHyH0


bob
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Nice Squid, but hey, bikes idling are for sale....Bikes doing brotys are known to increase the endorphins that make men disappear into the setting sun!!


Glad it runs. Great job. Not everyone can bring a bike back to life!!
 
Almost finished with the rehab.....need new cables, chain and a rear brake plate. The one on it floats in and out and all over the place.. I noticed the bushing was not seated all the way or in straight for that matter...pressed out the bushing and the hole for it on the brake plate was worn over sized. the PO used some thin metal to take up the slack and had silicon all over the outside edge of the plate to i guess help keep mud out because of the poor fit...
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