Pinittowinit
Husqvarna
AA Class
Has anyone done it? I put a 06 TE front end on my buddy's 82' cr430 direct swap btw. But now I'm working on the wheel. They both are 21's and 36 spoke
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
82 rim laced to a new style hub
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Husqvarna
1982 XC 430
Husqvarna
AA Class
So what hapened to the Front Wheel off the donar bike that gave up the the front end ?
fran...k.
Husqvarna
AA Class
No I haven't done it. I have used the whole wheel (hub spokes and rim even tire and tube) coming from the fork etc donor era. What is a new excel rim for one of those now? $125? Perhaps the husky rim is a bit better grade than the excel normal I read on one of these sub forums a while back. If you re angled and counter sunk for the new spoke angles I suppose it would be ok. Those spokes for a 1982 rim would be different for the brake side vs the other side. I would expect the spoke hole angle in the rim would reflect this, havn't studied how many degrees off radial the spokes for the two wheels are, you might be able to set that and the spoke length to your liking.
As for the back wheel. The non conical rear around 1982 has sharply angled spokes shorter spokes and perhaps thicker than say a 2006 making what I think is a much stronger wheel. It looks like the wheels (rear anyway) have been made more flex while the frame and swingarm and forks have been made stiffer.
As for the back wheel. The non conical rear around 1982 has sharply angled spokes shorter spokes and perhaps thicker than say a 2006 making what I think is a much stronger wheel. It looks like the wheels (rear anyway) have been made more flex while the frame and swingarm and forks have been made stiffer.