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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Homemade Brake Shoe Arching

I have a 400 cross front wheel on my Mag. Bought it from vintage husky and the drum was not true...lever pulsing. The cross front wheel is not a double leading and it worked. I trued the drum by putting sand paper on the shoes and turning the wheel. I used the adjuster to tighten the brakes NOT my fingers. If you try arcing the shoes with a drum that is not round, you will always have a problem. Keep in mind what ever you do, you are either making the drum bigger or the shoes smaller. In my case the front wheel was not useable. My front brake will lock up and no pulsing of the lever even when going slow. I am very happy with the results. Jeff
 
I believe the old time mechanics riveted and fitted new brake shoes on the cars in the early part of the last century. I think it's a forgotten art today.

You will also find out that your new pads on your disc brakes need to be fitted for 100% contact. We developed disc brakes for elevators. The engineers quickly found out the awareness of the caliper bracket to the disc was spot on yet the pad only had 1/3 contact. We sanded the pads till we had 100% of the surface touching.

Even when installing new brake pads on your car they need to wear in. You notice the stopping power improving as we drive the car more.
 
It's worth doing on any drum brake. Your getting a higher % of stopping power right away without wearing the shoes in while riding. You have the full rating of the stopping power right away. It's more about safety too. The brakes are spot on.
 
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