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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Rebuilding Brembo front master cylinder

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picked up a rebuild kit from Phil for my '87 front brake master cylinder. Most bikes have a circlip holding the piston / rubber / etc. assembly in. Ours has a metal ring that hold it in place. Problem is how do you remove the ring after having sat there for 31 years? Tried to poke it out from the front w/out luck. Guessing that if you had something small & long enough you could press it out from the smaller end. Any advise from anyone who's rebuilt one? Here's a pic of the ring / circlip:IMG_0372.JPG
 
Same question. Just started a front master cylinder rebuild and before I mess things up trying to dig this thing out I figured I would ask.

Thank you!
 
I resorted to carefully working it out with a tiny flathead screwdriver. I sort of dug into it the best I could to increase my leverage and just worked around until it came flying out. Took a while and certainly didn’t help my blood pressure. Not sure this will work in all situations. Putting the new one back in was a breeze by taking a 9/16 socket and using that to push it in evenly.
 
So, after a couple of rides the rubber boot started to work its way loose and the ring along with it. The ring looks to be a little asymmetrical and I will try inserting it the other way to see if that helps. If not, I will be splurging on a new master cylinder.
 
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