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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Clutch Baskets

Husq.fleet

Husq.fleet

Husqvarna
AA Class
My 84-500 has a aluminum clutch basket, my 87-430 has steel. Anyone better than the other? Thought about putting steel one on 500 as it has PVL internal rotor ignition and steel basket would give it some more rotating mass. Thanks in advance, Scott
 
I did it to my '82 430CR when I swapped out the 6 speed tranny for the 500's 4 speed; the steel basket assembly is heavier (it is after all billet) and won't wear like the aluminum (of which there are almost no replacements) but you need to re-gear it because the primary ratio changes.
 
Thanks , I appr. the info. It looked like the primary drive gear on the 500 may have been bigger but I did'nt compare the two. I haven't tore down my 83-500 yet, it prob has alum. basket also. Kicker gear was the same between 87 and 84 other than 84 had lightening holes in it and 87 was solid. Nice to know as I had just put new clutch in 87 before it expired. Thanks Scott
 
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