• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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Cracked clutch cover

J

jo360

Husqvarna
AA Class
Broke my clutch cover after the kicker sprang back and pushed the rubber stopper through the case, can get hold of the fourstroke outer part but no look finding the inspection cover, this suits the mid nineties te350, the magnesium matterail under the rubber stopper was less than 1mm thick must have been ran without the rubber and rubbed it away.
Anyone know if any other model inspection covers fit the te 350 outer?.
I can get the original welded but would prefer he upgrade.
 
Maybe you can patch it by welding a piece of aluminum plate outside the hole. Thicker would be better. The epoxy the rubber bumper stop in Place? The magnesium welding rod should weld both metals together.
 
I know the horse has bolted and I'm not trying to be smart but this doesn't happen with a decompressor fitted.
 
Horse in stable, decompressor fitted, the cover was in bad condition when i got the bike but i didnt realise how thin the matterial was around the rubber it can be welded but would prefer the newer version.
 
One of the local shops is going to weld the old unit, i cleaned it up and sweated the oil out of the mag using a propane torch to make it a bit easier to weld, have asked them to put some extra meat around that area the mgnesium looks like it may have been ground a few times for better adhesion of the rubber stopper to the case.
Many of the fabrication shops wont touch anything mag even though its almost as easy to repair as aluminium.
Wish i had an ac tig.
 
That bike is actually in the older single cam section on here. The magnesium clutch cover say 1983 to 1988 I have successfully welded. I think some magnesium alloys, cast magnesium have too much zinc to successfully weld. At least with simple ac tig and argon. Can not say about the modern stuff with all sorts of wave forms, balance adjustment and pulse. I could not weld the ignition cover on that 1998 bike in my avatar.

As for the aluminum. Some die cast under pressure stuff like kick starters on Honda cr 500 are weldable but the repair is not rigid enough.
 
I had my welding vendor send me some TIG filler magnesium rod as samples. I put the clutch cover after cleaning it in a box and cranked up the argon gas filled the box with a argon atmosphere then welded the cracks up. Just tacs at first, then connected the tacs.

I took every new welding process as a challenge. We had a electric motor prototype and the cast iron housing flexed. They asked me if I could weld steel gussets in the bare casting motor housing then they would marching it and test it. Yup I had special castiron rod that I can weld steel to cast. Everyone was impressed. One of the engineers from the motor company came to meet me. I explained how it's done. The rod I'd $300 for 10lbs.
 
Picked up the cover this morning $20 to repair, filled in the recess for the stopper told them to leave it rough as i wanted to finnish and paint it myself but for twenty bucks couldn't be happier.
 
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