• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

Metric Fasteners

It the stainless steel rod easy to cut threads on and what possible wing nut type you have been finding for the rear ? Thinking out making a bunch of stainless steel
exhaust clamps that mount ot frame and wonderong how easy to bend.
 
Gary,

McMaster makes a thumb nut and is plated gold. I machine the roundness in it, that hits the dowel with the hole, or you can do it with grinder. I run a bolt all way through it so internal threads don’t get messed up.

Threading the rod. File the threaded part, down some so it’s below 6mm. Maybe to 5.8 or 5.9 mm. Leave extra and sharpen that tip area to a point to start die. Use oil and go 1/2 turn forward then back up, then go forward additional turn and back up. When done cut of excess sharpened to a point to help start the die.
I have done 3 so far with no issues. For spring stop back by wheel lever. Just use a 6mm thin jamb nut, then spring, then thumb screw. Here is last one I did and McMaster Carr thumb screw.
 

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The welds on that swingarm really suck. Not up to the standard of that bike. Remove it, and send it to me at once. I will keep it out of sight thereafter.
 
In regards to:

What about replating the originals? Anybody have a good shop? I'd ship mine out if necessary. It'd be heavy and expensive, but that's what Kalifornia is all about.

Consider DIY plating - lot of info online from using a battery charger and solutions to kits available, such as from Caswell (same company that does fuel tank sealers).

Many techniques involved, but as in painting, good surface prep will pay dividends.
 
You mean there are other types of fastners than metric ?

Lol nah we have some brit shit .

My only complaint is there's only one shop in town that carries m7 fasteners
 
Yup I use bolt depot. bought a nice assortment of stainless bolts, nylon lock nuts and washers. Spent like $60 bucks and had a nice assortment.
Plus it's satisfying to get a box of shiny things...... I like shiny things.
 
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