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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

After - Rear Hub

schimmelaw

schimmelaw

Husqvarna
AA Class
81' 430XC street legal motard conversion in progress.

No before photo. 82' wheel in decent shape - ebay purchase. Needed/wanted the hub assembly, spokes and nipples. Bearings shot, inner bearing spacer corroded, but the hub itself was in decent shape, it had all the spokes and the nipples weren't rusted.

Photo 1: Powdered 82' hub w/ new bearings and nickle plated inner bearing spacer (before final clean up - see all the dust in the hub). The stock powdered 81' backing plate w/ new rubber o-ring.
Post powder, these parts didn't fit together and still "spin". The backing plate would "lock" itself in the hub and prohibt the wheel form rolling. The powder was so thick on both parts that the designed in tolerances were gone. Both parts had to be scraped, sanded and laped before they would work as a unit.

Photo 2: What do we have here? Prepped parts. The above mentioned hub/backing plate. "Wide" EBC brake shoes w/ nickle plated springs. Nickled axle and nut. Nickled chain adjusters w/ a couple of anod nuts. Gold anod wheel spacer. Drilled and powdered brake arm. Cleaned brake actuator. The only BUFO bolt on the whole bike (brake stay arm) and ssteel attachment nut.

Photos 3, 4 and 5: Mounted up and ready for spoke/rim install.
 

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O-ring size from photo #1 and source please

what di you use for the axle spacer foam ( goes around axle tube inside against the wall of the hub and holds axle tube in center of hub) or was the original still usable...?

I have some oil resistant packing foam that i am thinking of using.

Better ideas?

T
 
Tim,

O-ring from local hardware store. (Not H Depot or Lowes - no selection) I don't know what size. Just took the backing plate w/ me and rooted around till I found something that fit in the recess and was snug on the actuator arm.

Foam around the inner axle spacer? Not in mine and no hint that at one time there was some foam. Just sandwiched the spacer btwn the wheel bearings and went with it.

Rick
 
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