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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

L/C 430 right crank bearing

My Bearing came & it has 13 balls per row even though the SKF engineer said it would be 14. It does have the metal case & fill slot. It cost $102USD shipped to my door.
 
I used the same hot air gun to heat the cases, so the bearings fresh out of the freezer would drop right in. A quick pass under the arbor press to be sure they were seated. fresh trans bearings.JPG
 
The left crank fell into the new bearings beautifully. Unfortunatly I pressed the seal in the wrong position. As soon as I reposition the seal it will be time for me to sort out the transmission parts. I have my original 6 speed trans. & a used one off of Ebay.
 
Uhmmm, left side, the crank seal is on the inside of the casing on the cheek side ff crankshaft, and twin bearings pressed up against the outter screw-down plate.
 
You are correct husqyhamm. That was a test & you passed. lol. Please pay close attention incase I make more errors. Actually...I brain faded! I realized I did that last night & it will be corrected by tonight.
 
OK, seal is in proper. I'm ready to inspect, select pieces, & assemble main & lay transmission shaft/gear clusters. left crank in.JPGleft with crank.JPG
 
All is well then. Just ensure that the double bearing in r/h casing has the ball filling hole on the outside, i.e seal flange, side.
 
This is a worrying thread. I have just reassembled my Wr250 using FAG bearings but didnt know anything about the ball loading slot. The cost of my bearings was £9 including seals. ( I do buy a lot of bearings so get a good discount)
 
As long as the Fag bearing has the maximum capacity & C3 rating you should be fine. Fags are high quality bearings.
 
I sorted through two 6 speed transmissions late into the night. 4th gear, 4th gear bushing & 5/6th gear cluster were worn due to a snap ring not seated completely from the factory. This allowed the thrust washer between those gears to get chewed up causing my popping out of gear problems. I show the bad washer in one of the photos. The gear shaft assemblies, shift drum & shift forks on the right are the good ones I will be using. The ones on the left are spare parts at this point. late night.JPGsorting parts.JPGgood 6 speed assembly.JPGbad trust washer (3).JPG
 
The cases are together. Things went pretty easy. Heated the bearing/case with the hot air gun. Chilled the crank shaft with Ice packs. My home made crank puller worked well. cases together right.JPGcases together left.JPGsome home made tools.JPG
 
I made a lot of progress this weekend. I painted the clutch cover, cylinder & head. I mounted the engine in the frame. jug clutch cover masked with paint.JPGclutch cover unmasked.JPGjug fresh paint.JPGengine in frame shift linkage installed.JPG
 
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