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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Making a Husky stop. Any ideas on brakes?

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flyarmy

Husqvarna
B Class
The front brake on my 82 husky is very weak and I like a strong front brake. I have heard the name Woody passed around and read he can re-line hubs? Does anyone have more information on this process and where is Woody located? Maybe a DLS brake and hub is the ultimate answer? Any information on making the front brake stronger would be appreciated. Thanks. Mike
 
Mike- I also had heard his name over the years and finally broke down & sent my wheels to him (remove tires, tubes, rim lock & rim strips). What he sent back (almost 4 weeks) was nothing short of a miracle. He busts the wheel set down, puts in a new liner, arcs brake shoes, reassembles & trues. By far & away the best money spent (he's not cheap at all) however you should also learn to set up the DLS system- it takes some fiddling but once it's done MAN it freakin stops.
 
Woody is listed in the vintage parts sources thread. I have spoken several times with him... great guy.

T
 
I have used Woody to build a wheel, tru-arc shoes, and reline Husky drums. He is a miracle worker! Very impressive. David
 
Backing plates also require a bushing for the brake cam shaft as play builds up over time and weakens brake performance
 
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