• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 '84 500AE MX Project

suprize said:
Just found this in the vintage left kickers section....

When you Disassemble the shocks, there are spacers between the seal head and the piston. You can remove or add to these to change the shock overall length. With the ITC shock, they have a piston that enters a hole to give a hydraulic bottoming device. I remove these (or actually, it is easier to leave it in position and remove the alloy sleeve that the piston enters) and use a conventional Ohlins bump stop on the outside of the shock rod. The thinking here is that if you compress the shock really quickly - the ITC device hydraulic locks - which is why the shafts are often bent, and why Ohlins latest products have reverted to the good old - old fashioned bump stop. Also, you often find the 'topping - out' 18m/m dia spring inside is broken. Replace this spring before you re-assemble. ITC's ran 7.5w oil...
Andy.
hva-factory, Aug 30, 2012 House Keeping
that's from the horses mouth!
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This is exactly what I need, being 192cm and 110Kg.....thanks mate !
 
The big legs will suit you down to the ground...probably need a respring both ends but once dialled in you will love it! get the nauto working good and you can guarantee 1st place on every start! Up to you to stay there!!
 
suprize said:
The big legs will suit you down to the ground...probably need a respring both ends but once dialled in you will love it! get the nauto working good and you can guarantee 1st place on every start! Up to you to stay there!!
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Yeah one thing that has always been an issue for me is the seat height - when in the seated riding position, my legs felt too long :)
Standing is no problem using bar risers, and this is my default riding position anyways but the taller the bike, the better
 
If you are as tall as Rupert Hills (Rupsol), I feel for you ! He has spent years looking for a bike tall enough to ride. He makes his HPF Honda look like a mini bike !
 
got my engine back from Rod Spry last weekend......what a masterpiece, worth every penny

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and walking into Rods workshop was like candyland for a kid, some the bikes he has worked on which were waiting to be collected, was like walking back into a bike shop showroom from the '70's

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and with the Lectron carb which Kelly at Motosportz made for me (still waiting on the correct size rubber inlet adapter which will complete that setup)

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suprize said:
looks sensational, will be nice on the mantelpiece.... your not going to start it are you:eek:
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hahaha yeah it's that beautiful I tell ya......

I am so close to being able to ride it that I get butterflies when I look at it :)))
 
justintendo said:
nice. makes the money spent all worth it!
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oh for sure man.....with Rods brilliant work and all the other bits it will be like a new 1984 model bike. It's come a long way from what it was like in the ad I found on Craigslist in Abilene, TX 3 years ago
 
Looks very fine. My 430 I did had full crank cheeks not like yours, is that a 500 thing or an AE thing to run the auto box? Crank looks sweet!
 
Rod regrooved the clutch shoes.jpg

Funny the way the grooves are made on shoes !
I knew that you can add 3 oblics grooves on steel shoes , but not in the lenght !
 
Looks like its coming along nicely Rossik. The engine looks the business!

Michael - aren't the 360/390/420 first gear shoes grooved length ways like the photo?

I've still got to make one of those spring covers!
 
yeah Stormer, I understood Michel when he said oblique, to be angled, but given that Rod Spry has loads of experience with vintage Husky auto rebuilds, I'm trusting that he knows his stuff....

with all the reports of breaking springs, I just hope that after all this work, they hold out long enough to enjoy it......I am just so close now. The new ignition is on it's way then it's a shock and fork recondition job before the rebuild and then I'll be on the track
 
If you have a similar run with springs as me, you'll be fine, they last well. Read Paul Rooneys article about the AE500, get rid of any sharp edges on shoes where the spring can bind etc and its all good. I've sheared a couple of woodruff keys, probably because I need to get a 1/2" drive torque wrench instead of using my 3/8" and givinin' it a bit more :), and have broken one spring (touch wood) in a couple of years -(15-18 days riding).
 
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