• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 XC500 exhaust pipe frame rub

White Husky

White Husky

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi All, hope everyone had a good holiday! Wet wet wet over here in the UK - at least where I am.

Sorry - I'm after your help again.

Having taken my '83 XC500 to pieces after it's inaugural ride to clean it and also take stock of what's come lose or undone (plenty), I've noticed that the front exhaust pipe is rubbing heavily on the frame.

Where the pipe comes out of the cylinder and sweeps first down and then across (the lower exhaust horizontal bit) it rubs against the front of the frame downtube.

At the top where the exhaust pipe crosses over the cylinder the front of the pipe rubs agains the back of the frame front downtube.

I was wondering whether anyone else had had these issues, and whether it's a case of some kind of adjustment (raising the front of the engine by 10mm would probably skew the exhaust off the frame) or whether maybe I have the wrong pipe.

I'll try and get some pictures posted up, meanwhile if this sounds familiar to anyone I'd appreciate your experiences.

Cheers
Luc
 
Thanks for that Left Coast. Did you manage to adjust the fit somehow, or was it a case of finding a different pipe?

I'll have to do something, as in its present state it's going to damage the frame and the pipe. Worst case scenario will be putting two carefully located dents in the pipe!

Cheers
Luc
 
I adjusted the fit by playing with the front hight of the engine (that's how much slop was in the mounts). Denting the pipe is probably the best solution.
 
The 82-84 500 had a tight fit for the pipe. Everything has to be pretty much perfect for it to clear. Good luck... and we love pictures of old 500's (hint, hint).
 
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