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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Riding the wave of 86 400's

Steve Markham

Steve Markham

Husqvarna
B Class
Took the recently required, stable of 86 400's up to a national forest trail system called Rampart Range here in Colorado this weekend. All I can say is how happy I am to have these two awesome left kickers!

On a side note, anyone have any good ideas on how to damper the handlebar vibration? Brother bought new bars, and he had a hard time with the vibrations.

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Taper bars might help. Do your bar mounts seat into rubber bushings in the top triple? You might want to consider the switch to the earlier triple clamps that have the rubber inserts in the top triple and the taper bars for more rigidity. They have 1" diameter at the bar mounts and taper down to 7/8" at the grips.
 
those weighted bar ends , that rubber thing believe its called a bar snake , aluminium bars the big 1 1/8 are good but gotta find clamps for those if it seems really bad check your motor mounts slightly over size bolts no paint in them anywhere and killer tight and don't forget to check the crank bearings
 
have the crank balanced, and be sure jetting and ignition are right..
very true about the motor mounts, make sure they are tight and the swinger pivot is ok. the ss mounts from phil are sweet.
sometimes the cranks are out of true from the factory and sometimes they are smooth.
 
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another solution would be a head stay connecting the cylinder head to the frame like the modern bikes..i would like to do this as i bet it would be a big help
 
big bore crank out of tolerance is most vibration whoes
even new had one that was just out of spec
 
I have made a head stay setup and it worked for a while until the rear swingarm/engine bolt/bushes wore out more.
The setup just hid the problem.
Husky engines aren't balanced all that well either.
Balanced my 86 WR240 and it was way out , could not believe how much I had to remove from the crank and ended up stopping early.
Must have been close because it revs like a 80 now and no vibs.
 
Vince at Mr Crankshaft
best and real fast, accurate and inexpensive

Not a source for rod kits though.

must send him all parts
 
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