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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Cylinder Re-sleeving

ive been royaly served! :rolleyes: love the beast projects an you definatly have tools, i know know this and will be eating my humble pie now.
 
Nah, not served. Who would expect machining equipment crammed into a transmission shop.

Pie, sounds good, I just had all vegetables for dinner. Pie actually sounds really good.
 
lol ive not got a clue am way away over the pond so i stupidly assume not every one has the kit or skills to do it yer self.
i come clean i had no pie but did have some slices of banana and walnut cake..
 
I completly disagree with doing it yourself. I also have a Large Lathe and a Mill and a Press. I also work with Diesel Engines. On a Diesel replaceing a Liner is straight forward as it comes pre honed and the clearances are much larger and less important than a small 2 stroke. On a 2 stroke once the Sleave is pressed in then the Sleave will need to be fitted to the new Piston. The finish hone is very important to break in the new Rings corectly. I checked into doing this with my Bridgport Mill but its stroke is only 5" so no way. So now You need a Sunen CK 10 Honing Machine to do it right. So Yes You could replace the Sleave and then take it to a local Machine Shop. But You are probably going to buy the Sleave from a Shop that installs them anyway. So why not just send it to them in the first place. I have had good luck with North West Sleave in the Portland Oregon. They can provide most popular Pistons for the same price you would pay elseware. Or you can send your own. They have had pretty quik turn around time and the ports are matched very well. There is a reason why Motorcycle Sleaveing Shops are still in busness. Plan on spending around $500 including the Piston.
 
FirstEliminator said:
Hey guys,

I have a few Husqvarna cylinders that all need resleeving. This is a service I have not purchsed before. I have heard about LA Sleeve. Not sure if there are any others. Has anyone had a cylinder resleeved lately? If so, round about what should I expect to pay? On the LA sleeve order form there are lots of options. There is a place to check off for Nikasil. Is this something that can be added to a any cylinder for enhanced performance? They also ask about overbore and big bore. I am pretty sure I would just stay with the stock bore. They also have honing on there, if you ask them to hone to a finished bore, do you need to send them a piston for proper fittment?

i've never swapped a sleeve myself. But, I do rebuild auto transmissions on a daily basis and own machining equipment like lathes and mills. Not sure what the savings would be to just buy a sleeve versus sending out the whole cylinder. It's probably something I would attempt to do myself if I can do some research on proceedure to feel confident.

thanks,
Mark
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Mark,
My racing buddy has used LA Sleeve a few times for his vintage YZ's, & was happy.

Husky John
 
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