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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Best Way To Convert To 18 Inch Rear Wheel?

Tahitian_Red

Husqvarna
AA Class
What do you think would be the best way to convert my 78 250CR to an 18 inch rear wheel? Should I find an 83 Husky rear wheel or buy an 18 inch rim and spokes from Buchanan's? Thanks for your input!

Jay
 
Tahitian_Red;36596 said:
What do you think would be the best way to convert my 78 250CR to an 18 inch rear wheel? Should I find an 83 Husky rear wheel or buy an 18 inch rim and spokes from Buchanan's? Thanks for your input!

Jay

82 or 83 wheel /hub will work just fine... get rid of the 78 cone style hub... if you want buy a new wheel and spokes that is great but you will need the hub......

T
 
Thanks HT!

Does the 83 hub offer strength and better braking? Will I have to machine spacers to make the conversion or is it a straight bolt on?
 
I'm in the process of attempting this same project for a 78 390 OR except i'm putting together a front 21"and back 18", (just so both rims match in color) , So far I have hubs from a 78 CR and I have a set of what I was told is oem 87 510 wheels! Does anybody know if the 510 wheels will lace up to the earlier cr hubs with the right spokes??
 
For my 78 OR250 project, I got an 18" akront rear wheel from a 1976 WR360 and laced it to my refurbished 78 conical hub.
 
tommie d;36996 said:
T,
anyway to get the missing pictures back on the axles and spacers thread?
has a few of "this image or video has been moved or deleted" where some very helpful pictures should be.


Sorry Tommie...you are right**************************************** I'll fix that****************************************! I still have them in my Photobucket Album acct somewhere ..... I did some rearranging in there and inadvertantly disabled the connecting link... will have to repost.... I don't have access here at work but will try and get to it sometime in the next few days...


Sorry guys but my posting of specific tech data and pictures is usually limited to late at night after the kids and my wife have wrung all they need out of me for the day... I have some more manuals that have been submited on 82 250 Autos and 84 ? 510's that need posted in.... keep all the good stuff coming....

T
 
No worries T, most guys with a family got the same problem ;)
Looking forward to see the pictures.

I'm very impressed by the activity here in the forum :applause:
The vintage section is a real gold mine of information for me.

I also get a chance to practice my crappy English ;).

Peter
(with three vintage Husky roaches in the garage)
 
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