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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

86 400 Oil Leak

maddog82

maddog82

Husqvarna
AA Class
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I think the clutch cover gasket is leaking. Any tips on removing the clutch cover? Anywhere else it could be leaking?
 
If the level is high enough it can come out a little bleed hole under the water pump. I think the only real seal there is the seal in the bearing for the water pump. The seal for the water doesn't seal the oil if I recall correctly. What I see in your picture is the gas tank for an 85-86 and the kick starter for an 87-88. I can't make out the kind of kick start rubber bumper to determine if the clutch cover matches the kick starter or the frame and tank in vintage. I usually thread a bolt into one of the water pump bolt holes after taking off the water pump and pull on that and the kick starter, the locating pins for that cover can make a bit of force necessary. I generally glue or gasket cement the gasket to the cover and hope it doesn't stick to the case so it can be re used multiple times.
It could be leaking out the shifter hole (which will have a steel sleeve if it is the 87-88 clutch cover again if I recall correctly) there is one or more o rings there I think.
fran
 
That is the 87-88 rubber kick start bumper and hence the whole cover. If/when you take the cover off and see six clutch springs then the whole engine is 87-88. The 85-86 should have a little piece around the sprocket shaft with four small machine screws. If it has no such removable plate they the whole engine is 87-88. Of course you could check the number as well on the case. Just from what I have dis assembled and the parts sheets I have studied.

Fran
 
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