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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

How do I tell if a rim is beyond help?

Chef

Chef

Husqvarna
AA Class
Working on a 1976 wr360 basket case that I picked up. Looking at the back rim mounted on the bike without a tire. I have no side to side wobble but I do have an "off round" wobble ,maybe a half an inch. There doesn't seem to be any visible damage to the rim. Is this "fixable" with spoke tightening or should I be looking for another rim?

Thanks in advance
I'm sure there will be more questions along the way!
 
If it's a pretty smooth egg shape, and not an abrupt "hump" you should be able to fix it. But it can take some work. If it were mine, I'd actually loosen all the spokes and start over. Heck - if you have to replace the rim, you'll have to loosen them all, anyway, so go for it.

While they're loose spin the wheel and see if it's less egg shaped with the spoke tension released, and go from there.
 
There were a bunch of bent spokes so I took the wheel apart. Polished up the rim, stripped the hub. I'll order new spokes today. I guess I'm going to learn how to lace a wheel! Hopefully I can get it trued up. This is just the start of this project. I would like a rider when I'm done, not a show bike.
 
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