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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

83 brake stay arm

rsmell@sbcglobal.net

rsmell@sbcglobal.net

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hello,

On an 83 CR 250 , has anyone tried mounting, the brake stay arm, in the lower hole of the frame bracket, and placed the brake pedal mounting bolt, in the upper hole? This should allow the brake pedal, to have more travel, before it hits the frame.

With the brake pedal, in the upper hole, it also places the brake rod pivot point, closer to the swingarm bolt. With the brake stay arm, in the lower hole, the brake stay arm, is now more parallel, to the swingarm.

However, does anything interfere, when the swingarm is in the fully compressed position?

Bob
 
Hi Bob,

I looked at that, on my 83 CR the bolts are different sizes, 6mm for the brake rod and 8mm I think for the brake pedal. i run an exhaust spring from the brake pedal to the top chain roller mount so it feels more like a modern bike. I must admit i can't remember a lot of movement in the brake pedal, I have never had it hit the frame.

I don't know if mine is a lttle bit out of shape but i can't use one of the bolts in the swingarm chain slider as it fouls the brake arm bracket. I assume it is because the frame has been tweaked at some time over the last 27 years ?

Cheers, Rathers
 
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