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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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No shim behind, yes shim under snap ring. It is a sloppy fit for a heavy gear on such a tiny bearing. I have also considered fab'ing a backside shim but have not worked through it yet (clearance, hardness, tooth alignment).

Does your case have the bolt-in retainer for the idler post? That's better. Initially they were only pressed in and that was a problem.
 
Picklito said:
No shim behind, yes shim under snap ring. It is a sloppy fit for a heavy gear on such a tiny bearing. I have also considered fab'ing a backside shim but have not worked through it yet (clearance, hardness, tooth alignment).

Does your case have the bolt-in retainer for the idler post? That's better. Initially they were only pressed in and that was a problem.
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It is pressed in but looks really good and still tight with gear/bearing. Just don't like the front to back play.
 
I made up an ally bronze shim/washer to suit, was just rattling around before. No shim on the backside just the press fit stub. Not tested yet but looks/feels right.
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Picklito said:
No shim behind, yes shim under snap ring. It is a sloppy fit for a heavy gear on such a tiny bearing. I have also considered fab'ing a backside shim but have not worked through it yet (clearance, hardness, tooth alignment).

Does your case have the bolt-in retainer for the idler post? That's better. Initially they were only pressed in and that was a problem.
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Pressed in idler post and I found the issue. Idler post was backing out of case. It was out almost 1/4 inch, so that is what chewed everything up. I will have to go on the back side and use maybe an allen set screw or roll pin to hold it in. I pressed it back in and if I used the outer shim inside, on back side of gear, we are now perfectly aligned with clutch gear and kicker gear. Will have to find a stainless shim to replace that one. Doing that, gear spins great and no wobble what so ever.

Small gear under clutch is 17 teeth.
 
dartyppyt said:
Pressed in idler post and I found the issue. Idler post was backing out of case. It was out almost 1/4 inch, so that is what chewed everything up. I will have to go on the back side and use maybe an allen set screw or roll pin to hold it in. I pressed it back in and if I used the outer shim inside, on back side of gear, we are now perfectly aligned with clutch gear and kicker gear. Will have to find a stainless shim to replace that one. Doing that, gear spins great and no wobble what so ever.

Small gear under clutch is 17 teeth.
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Good detective work. That must be what they were trying to avoid by going to the bolt in retainer plate.
 
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