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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Check your drum springs

J

jo360

Husqvarna
AA Class
Just a heads up, had my rear brake lock on going down hill off camber which resulted in a dislocated shoulder and bruised ribs (my shoulder pushed into my rib cage).
The culprit was a broken shoe spring that jammed the brakes on.
The spring had some corrosion and was snapped off at the point where it goes through the hole in the shoe.
 
jo360 said:
Just a heads up, had my rear brake lock on going down hill off camber which resulted in a dislocated shoulder and bruised ribs (my shoulder pushed into my rib cage).
The culprit was a broken shoe spring that jammed the brakes on.
The spring had some corrosion and was snapped off at the point where it goes through the hole in the shoe.
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Jo,
Hope you recover quickly and can get back to riding very soon. Thank you for reminding the rest of us to keep safety in mind when looking over the worn parts on our vintage bikes.

Marty
 
Put a tad of white brake lube where the spring goes through the hole in the shoe. It's a high temp brake grease we use on the back plates we're the shoes ride on cars, trucks. I lube the cams on dirtbikes too.
 
oh no, my worst nightmare (injury, not the brakes) hope you mend together ok Jo, not the best site for serious injury:eek:
 
All good, cannot sleep on on left side due to injury or my back due to wife elbowing for snoring.at least the injury is short term.
 
Can't say I've ever lubed as bill describes, but it makes sense. I've certainly seen springs in the past with a wear indent in the described area.
Thank you for the reminder about the risks of these older bikes. A "Fix to ride" can still mean picking up a lot of new parts.
 
ive always dabbed a bit of grease on the cam surfaces, but springs are springs. ive seen the holes elongated and the spring hooks worn a bit but ive never heard of them breaking as the shoes are alloy and the springs steel. its usually a one sided fight. but these areas get dirty and hot cold hot cold and are used heaps more than road drums.
 
suprize said:
ive always dabbed a bit of grease on the cam surfaces, but springs are springs. ive seen the holes elongated and the spring hooks worn a bit but ive never heard of them breaking as the shoes are alloy and the springs steel. its usually a one sided fight. but these areas get dirty and hot cold hot cold and are used heaps more than road drums.
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While taking apart old Huskys for restoring or parts I have on several wheels over the years seen damage inside the hubs showing signs of broken springs or spring that come loose. You usually see the damage on stiffening ribs that have chipped or broken.

Marty
 
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