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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My 430 start to finish

Awesome piece of work. Nice to see someone else does a leak-down test during assembly. I found it makes the bike easier to start and to get jetting right. Having the timing is spot on also helps. Dial indicator is my preferred method as well. Can't wait to see the end result, maybe a youtube vid? hint hint.
 
Bitchin' looking Husky. Anything that looks that cool must be fast. So, whats your intention with it? Putt putt machine, competition, man cave display?
 
Crashaholic said:
Bitchin' looking Husky. Anything that looks that cool must be fast. So, whats your intention with it? Putt putt machine, competition, man cave display?
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Thanks, I'm going to ride it. I built for the little twisty roads and highways here in MO. I've put over 300 miles on it all ready. Just short little trips around town, and Terrorizing the nieborhood. Speed bumbs and Dips at 60 no problem! Wheelies in 1-3, somtimes 4th ( all motor no clutching) top speed so far 107mph. I've gone to a differnt Silencer, made so other changes, and still dialing it in.
 
Terrorizing the nieborhood. Speed bumbs and Dips at 60 no problem! Wheelies in 1-3, somtimes 4th ( all motor no clutching) top speed so far 107mph.
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Now thats what a bike like this should be used for.
 
Other than these pictures I posted. I really haven't explained in any detail what's really been done to the bike. I'll try not to forget anything.

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Cylinder at some point was ported/polished by Kustom Kraft
Vape ignition System with Dc regulator
Sachs 48mm forks and handle bars are NOS for an Aprilia SXV
Ohlins shock rebuilt by Tim at Ohlins USA resprung and vavled for Supermoto
Mikuni TMX38 carb, V-Force reeds / Hva Factory Intake, Petcock with reserve
Dyno-port pipe with Answer silencer
Italian Husky parts include Triple clamps, Healight, Front fender, chain guard, Digital Speedo, battery box, clutch lever and perch
Brembo Radial mount 320mm front, Nissin 240mm rear
Motomox Cushdrive 47t rear sprocket, 16t front, EK 3D Supermoto chain (lightened)
Warp 9 Racing wheels (Ktm stlye hub) Shinko tires Ultra soft front tires.
Maico Only Footpegs, Evo MX Gripper seat and Graphics
Husky Products Radator Guards (Blue Louvered), Pipe Protector, Aluminum Water Pump and Guard.
 
First off these covers do not fit the '87-88's with the larger 6 spring clutch assembly, the basket is to large.
In order to use this cover (which was a must have) I had come up with a complete '86 400 clutch assembly. Scored one on ebay.
The main difference '86 clutch hubs are held on with a circlip where the '87 is held on by a nut.
Long store short to use the '86 clutch I had to: Take 0.150" off the center of hub to allow it and the nut to seat right on the shaft.
Ground 2 new flats for the lockwash. Then reduced the size of the hex nut from a 32mm to 27mm, so the pressure plate will fit over the nut.

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husky jim said:
First off these covers do not fit the '87-88's with the larger 6 spring clutch assembly, the basket is to large.
In order to use this cover (which was a must have) I had come up with a complete '86 400 clutch assembly. Scored one on ebay.
The main difference '86 clutch hubs are held on with a circlip where the '87 is held on by a nut.
Long store short to use the '86 clutch I had to: Take 0.150" off the center of hub to allow it and the nut to seat right on the shaft.
Ground 2 new flats for the lockwash. Then reduced the size of the hex nut from a 32mm to 27mm, so the pressure plate will fit over the nut.

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oddly mine is the same only reversed
have a 1985 gearbox with an 87 clutch
using the snapping and spacers to set the clutch tight
 
2premo said:
oddly mine is the same only reversed
have a 1985 gearbox with an 87 clutch
using the snapping and spacers to set the clutch tight
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That would of been too easy!
I find it's usually easier to update like you did, than to down grade like I did with the smaller clutch.
The only benifit on this aplication is that the 5 spring clutch is lighter than the 6. How much lighter?
Not sure, I didn't have a scale to weigh but I could tell just by the human scale, holding both assemblies on in each hand.

You must of used a later model primary cover on your 85 running the 87 clutch?
I've also been working on a Rekluse for my Woods 430 using the 6 spring clutch.
Going to start a seperate thread for it, with part numbers and where to locate.
 
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