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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Magnificent 7

I stayed with the 17 Rear Husky rims. Mostly due to the spokes and Buchanan's knew the sizes. I didn't want to venture into an 18" with that conical hub.
I went 18" on Maico and I had to throw a set of spokes away, I had made up, because they were a titch too short. I ended up buying an 18 and 21 gold rim kit with spokes from VMX.

ruwfo said:
Darin,
What rear wheel size is on the 390? I've been talk to Gary, and the wheels are turns, on a possible
420 conversion on my 1980 390 CR.
Husky John
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Have any of you given thoughts to using this (Emergency brake lining material) to reline a set of shoes?

I know the Maico guys are using this material because the braking/stopping is a lot better?

It is fairly reasonable to do and I have extra hubs to clamp the shoes in till glue is set.

It would run me about $5 bux a shoe, which is cheap.

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dartyppyt said:
I stayed with the 17 Rear Husky rims. Mostly due to the spokes and Buchanan's knew the sizes. I didn't want to venture into an 18" with that conical hub.
I went 18" on Maico and I had to throw a set of spokes away, I had made up, because they were a titch too short. I ended up buying an 18 and 21 gold rim kit with spokes from VMX.
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What 17" tires are you using? IRC, or the Kenda K257D
 
dartyppyt said:
Have any of you given thoughts to using this (Emergency brake lining material) to reline a set of shoes?It is fairly reasonable to do and I have extra hubs to clamp the shoes in till glue is set.It would run me about $5 bux a shoe, which is cheap.
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I'm interested Darin, especially for the old large hub EnduroC and Sportsmans that you can not find shoes for! Where did you get it and what is the glue? Also do they have to be rivited as well? Chris
 
Darin,
message Gary or call him, he was saying , to me he's got some super dupe brake mod, not sure if it will work on a older then 82 hub, though. We've been talking about making a 420CR out on my 80 390, so he's got a bunch of cool ideas. We' ll see & i'll post once
we get further into it.

Husky John



dartyppyt said:
Have any of you given thoughts to using this (Emergency brake lining material) to reline a set of shoes?

I know the Maico guys are using this material because the braking/stopping is a lot better?

It is fairly reasonable to do and I have extra hubs to clamp the shoes in till glue is set.

It would run me about $5 bux a shoe, which is cheap.

i-5mPDthw-S.jpg


i-gM3mZ5K-S.jpg
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dartyppyt said:
Have any of you given thoughts to using this (Emergency brake lining material) to reline a set of shoes?

I know the Maico guys are using this material because the braking/stopping is a lot better?

It is fairly reasonable to do and I have extra hubs to clamp the shoes in till glue is set.

It would run me about $5 bux a shoe, which is cheap.

i-5mPDthw-S.jpg


i-gM3mZ5K-S.jpg
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Years ago back in the late 70s my friends and I relined our own brake shoes with a material called Mintex,it worked out about as good as the stock shoes. We got our materials from the local brake shop. My friends had Autos and used a lot of brake shoes to slow them down so they would downshift faster. We made a steel band to clamp the shoes together after gluing them up and baked them in and oven.Can't remember what we used for bonding agent.
Bill
 
DeathFromAbove said:
I'm interested Darin, especially for the old large hub EnduroC and Sportsmans that you can not find shoes for! Where did you get it and what is the glue? Also do they have to be rivited as well? Chris
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I got the material from Mcmaster Carr and the Pliobond Glue. I have to read the directions good but think the glue sets while baking in oven at 300 degrees. We should be good to go without any rivets. It is same material as Maico guys using. I will be the Guinee pig. I have extra hubs that I plan to clamp the shoes in to bake to get the perfect form. I have 4' of material at 1 1/2 inch wide so I can cover the 30mm shoe widths and 25mm ones. I will cut any extra down when done. This woven material looks pretty bitey and gnarly with brass mixed in. I'll post progress and steps on here to do it plus results. What's worse that can happen? I can't stop and end up in a cornfield.......... Total cost was $40 bux with the glue.
 
ruwfo said:
Darin,
message Gary or call him, he was saying , to me he's got some super dupe brake mod, not sure if it will work on a older then 82 hub, though. We've been talking about making a 420CR out on my 80 390, so he's got a bunch of cool ideas. We' ll see & i'll post once
we get further into it.

Husky John
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Glad you brought that up cause he is suppose to call me one weekend. I will ask about what brake mods he is doing. Yeah! Cool! Do a thread on the 420 conversion.
 
Bill502 said:
Years ago back in the late 70s my friends and I relined our own brake shoes with a material called Mintex,it worked out about as good as the stock shoes. We got our materials from the local brake shop. My friends had Autos and used a lot of brake shoes to slow them down so they would downshift faster. We made a steel band to clamp the shoes together after gluing them up and baked them in and oven.Can't remember what we used for bonding agent.
Bill
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Good info Bill! They might have used Anabond or Raybestos adhesive. Raybestos, I have to buy in large quantity. Anabond think comes from India. Pliobond was suggested as another good glue. I'll try to get you guys a good close up pic of the material.

Does anyone on here have a source for new brake shoe springs only? Some of my old springs are :thumbsdown:
 
I did both front and back sets on my 390. The new brake material is the cats ass!
I had friends come out from Ohio and they go back to my Teenage racing years. We spent yesterday on our modern bikes having fun ripping bark off trees. So my friend has a 79 CR 390 stock and his runs perfect. He raced one back in day. I let him ride mine and he said mine is a monster over his.
 
I basically put old shoe in a vice and chipped old lining off with wood chisel. Didn't want to grind it off since might been asbestos?

Then put shoe in blast cabinet and blasted old glue off. Then cleaned shoe with carb cleaner.

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Once dry. I used acetone to wipe on glue that is on old shoe to kinda re activate it. Then applied more glue to new lining and old shoe again. Line up the center marks I put on lining and shoe, then clamped them in a used hub.
Bake @ 325 degrees for 30 mins.

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Sweet!! Darin I used a different method and the WRONG glue, more of an epoxy and it did not squish out enough. I got everything apart and scraped the stuff before it set up. I made a circle with a pallet band and welded some small bent 45* pcs to a small turnbuckle and put it all inside the band, then adjusted the buckle out to tension the shoes to the lining. Looks like I'll be using your glue and my clamp system. Thanks for the R&D. How you doing that with the pics? Chris
 
DeathFromAbove said:
Sweet!! Darin I used a different method and the WRONG glue, more of an epoxy and it did not squish out enough. I got everything apart and scraped the stuff before it set up. I made a circle with a pallet band and welded some small bent 45* pcs to a small turnbuckle and put it all inside the band, then adjusted the buckle out to tension the shoes to the lining. Looks like I'll be using your glue and my clamp system. Thanks for the R&D. How you doing that with the pics? Chris
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Thanx DFA!

I had to end up getting a Smugmug acct. for $55 year. I just upload to Smugmug, right click on the pic, select copy the image address, then paste in the pic tab on here.

Wait till you use that Pliobond. It smells 100% like cat piss! Meow! Seems to be good stuff.

With this new brake material. It bends real easy after heated, to dry 1st layer of glue.
 
Next project, is to get this one finished off. Gonna send the frame out to get powder coated, since I had to rework the upper shock mounts to get the Fox shocks to mount.

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