• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

Left lever for actionning rear brake on Automatic.

speedyauto said:
Hey Michel,
have you considered using an after market "Magura hydraulic clutch" kit to activate the brake as it has more pulling power.
You could set up the slave cylinder to either pull on the foot brake lever or the brake drum lever.
Just another idea to throw around.
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Hi Speedyauto
I've just ride only a few times with that brake device.
1st, you need to accomodate, and 2nd the tuning must be good to have good brakes.
Michel
 
AutoMan said:
I fitted a left hand rear brake lever to my 500AE back in the mid 80's (one of the first made engine No. 3) , used a brake cable to replace the rod (I think it was a Suzuki part) this would then flex when you put the brake on so you didn't have to overcome the force of the pedal return spring. I then lengthened the brake arm to get more leverage and added a fitting for the cable for the hand brake. It wasn't as powerful as using your foot but got me out of trouble when my feet were of the pegs in really nasty situations
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the more I read these threads and the more I realise that I am not capable enough to engineer something as effective as the brake pedal to use for rear wheel breaking in right handers where I need my leg out, the clearer it becomes that I don't really need to duplicate or have a substitute for the right side brake lever, all I need is something that will simulate at worst, some engine breaking which the 500AE (and all autos) really lack.

So I think a left hand operated cable break link is gonna work fine for me......so now onto the actual solution.
The more pics of other peoples creations would be very much appreciated......thanks!
 
Here is what I did for the dual shock one. For the mono shock one I made another cable pocket on the little arm coming off the backing plate. My application was suitable for steep rough downhill where only the hands stayed where they really belonged.
 

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fran...k. said:
Here is what I did for the dual shock one. For the mono shock one I made another cable pocket on the little arm coming off the backing plate. My application was suitable for steep rough downhill where only the hands stayed where they really belonged.
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From Holger Kraft.

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