• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

cleaning clutch plates

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Ethan Carlyle

Husqvarna
Any recommendations for cleaning these clutch plates and friction plates? The spots you see are light rust. 1968 Husky sat for 15 years. Had to pry the plates off each other with my fingernail. Should I soak in Evapo-rust and then clean with a green scotch-brite and wd-40? That's how I clean rust off my table saw. Thanks. Here's a pic of the rust.

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clutch plates are replaceable, something to consider
but you can clean those, you want some roughness on the metal and a reasonably clean fiber
 
My 1970 400 Cross plates looked just like that when I refurbished it after years of sitting. I tried cleaning the plates and a light sanding. It was plagued with clutch slippage. Tried different cleaning methods and adjusting, then readjusting the springs, still slipped. I decided it must be the springs, until I talked to John at Vintage Husky. He said just replace the plates and it will work. He was right, new set of plates. Don't know if you'll have the same issues, but my suggestion is like 2premo above, consider a new set of clutch plates.
 
Thank you all. I let them sit in evaporust overnight and they seem to be working. But I have not tried them with the engine running yet. Got a bit to do before that. And I've got John at Vintage Husky on speed dial by now (he's very helpful) so I may just get some new plates.
 
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