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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Mikuni Conversion

V

Vinskord

Husqvarna
AA Class
A question for those that have done a Mikuni 36mm conversion to their pre 75 Huskys - have you had an interference with the vent coming off the right side of the carb with the aluminum air filter cover (pic attached)? Prior to cutting a notch in a perfectly good cover, I thought I see what others have experienced.

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Well, since George has dealt with this issue about a thousand times in his day his suggestion is going to be your easiest and most common solution short of machining another part.
 
The 'precision hammer' worked a charm!

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So... as having done this conversion before using plastic air cleaner covers, it was odd that the alloy cover was causing an interference. So brought out a number of my covers and found that they varied both in diameter and depth.

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So much so they they could be 'stacked' inside one another, like one of those stacking dolls.

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So ended up shaving a few millimeters off the depth of the alloy cover and fit with no problem.
 
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A 'story' about precision hammers - worked at a shop once that the owner raced . If a part failed at the races on Sunday, he would take the part and place it on the pavement outside the parts department and go after it with a 10lb sledge. Remembered a steel tank that ended up about half an inch thick one Monday. Afterwards he would bring the exact same new part out from the parts department, lay it next the the flattened part and leave it there for a couple hours - letting the new part know that this was its fate if it failed on race day. We stayed clear of the owner the rest of the day!
 
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