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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Cush Drives

NYWR430

NYWR430

Husqvarna
AA Class
The only reason I'm bringing up the old Cush Drive debate is that I know a few of us ride our older huskies on the pavement sometimes, and most of us do not have cush drives. I found this interesting product that incorporates a cush drive into a sprocket so the original non-cush wheel hub can still be utilized. Does anybody know if any of the listed Husqvarna applications will fit earlier models from the 1980's(same sprockets)?
http://kushsprockets.com/
 
You could ask and see if you can get one made to your spec or one with a blank center. It looks kind of like one of my unfinished wall hanger projects.



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The 360 not the more modern one has a cush drive in the clutch as I suspect a lot of them from the late seventies It might be adaptable somehow the link you provided kind of seems to be on the small side for the amount of rubber compared to what few cush hubs I have seen.

Fran
 
I agree the rubber area does appear to be smaller, but the rubber placement is much farther away from the axle centerline and would result in less force on the rubber bushings than a traditional cush hub located very close to the axle centerline. This may explain the smaller rubber contact area. They may be trying to decrease contact area so that the lesser force can create the same amount of stress in the sprocket rubber as in a cush hub to provide similar amounts of damping. This is just my crazy idea and I have no concrete evidence to base this on.
 
Well I was getting to the point that I need a new sprocket anyway so I'm going to give it a try. They say the next production run of Husky sprockets is July 12, then international shipping. I imagine it will be here around the first of Aug.
 
Excellent. Post up some pictures of the sprocket when you get it if you don't mind. Very curious on build quality.
 
NYWR430;103028 said:
Excellent. Post up some pictures of the sprocket when you get it if you don't mind. Very curious on build quality.
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Oh yeah I'll do a full report on this thing. That is of course assuming that it doesn't fly apart, tangle up my chain, lock the rear wheel up at some inopportune moment and kill me.:lol:
 
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