Husq.fleet
Husqvarna
AA Class
1Tuff500XC;113740 said:
Just prodded my machinist yesterday
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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Specifications on 500 rod
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Just prodded my machinist yesterday
1Tuff500XC
Husqvarna
AA Class
Bitchin! I'm real curious to see the final outcome on this.
I just recently took delivery of what appears on first inspection to be a good 86 500 bottom end. Which may have been either an over the counter either complete bottom end, or atleast leftside case, as the number pad has not been stamped. Then I also have another one in an 86 500XC stamped case, that while the main bearings actually feel good, there is enough filth from the previous owner leaving it opened and exposed to the elements to likely force a teardown, if for nothing else than to clean, and then more precisely confirm all is good. Or rebuild.
I'm likely going to just try and run the one recent unstamped bottom end. Baring anything cropping up as I do a more thorough inspection. However, since I'm basically a performance junky, with a big oldschool musclecar strip/street back ground, I'm always looking for internal mods to gain a little edge, and especially reliability. Once I get this bike built, I want to keep it, atleast till I can't remember my name anymore, or can't see lol. Figure even if I can't ride at some point, I can still start it and or look at it.
But anywho, I'm real interested (extremely) in mods to more precisely balance these reciprocating assemblies. Or remove vibes from certain rpm's. Or knife edge and lighten for quicker revs. Or just make gains that are only aimed at reliability. What ever the case may be, I want those gains. In the drag racing musclecar world, those are called free hp. Not because the mods don't cost you anything in money, but because there is not a negative trade off that offsets it. I'm thinking on one of these big dogs, any or all of the above could likely only be a bonus.
Again, real interested in where this goes lol, to say the least. Cuzz I've got likely the one bottom end that needs love to even be useable. Would be cool to compare the stock 85/86 bottom end in performance etc., with one with all the smart little machinist hotrod tricks in the book done. My machines in general, always make more power than the other guys with the same parts, because of all the attention to little details, that stacked, add up to one thing.....an advantage/better combo.
I just recently took delivery of what appears on first inspection to be a good 86 500 bottom end. Which may have been either an over the counter either complete bottom end, or atleast leftside case, as the number pad has not been stamped. Then I also have another one in an 86 500XC stamped case, that while the main bearings actually feel good, there is enough filth from the previous owner leaving it opened and exposed to the elements to likely force a teardown, if for nothing else than to clean, and then more precisely confirm all is good. Or rebuild.
I'm likely going to just try and run the one recent unstamped bottom end. Baring anything cropping up as I do a more thorough inspection. However, since I'm basically a performance junky, with a big oldschool musclecar strip/street back ground, I'm always looking for internal mods to gain a little edge, and especially reliability. Once I get this bike built, I want to keep it, atleast till I can't remember my name anymore, or can't see lol. Figure even if I can't ride at some point, I can still start it and or look at it.
But anywho, I'm real interested (extremely) in mods to more precisely balance these reciprocating assemblies. Or remove vibes from certain rpm's. Or knife edge and lighten for quicker revs. Or just make gains that are only aimed at reliability. What ever the case may be, I want those gains. In the drag racing musclecar world, those are called free hp. Not because the mods don't cost you anything in money, but because there is not a negative trade off that offsets it. I'm thinking on one of these big dogs, any or all of the above could likely only be a bonus.
Again, real interested in where this goes lol, to say the least. Cuzz I've got likely the one bottom end that needs love to even be useable. Would be cool to compare the stock 85/86 bottom end in performance etc., with one with all the smart little machinist hotrod tricks in the book done. My machines in general, always make more power than the other guys with the same parts, because of all the attention to little details, that stacked, add up to one thing.....an advantage/better combo.
Husq.fleet
Husqvarna
AA Class
anggelo;132095 said:
Thanks for the report on your success with the conversion. Did you have yours balanced? Vibration level before and after? My machinist got very busy and has been unable to get back on mine, buddy deal so I'm low on list which is OK. Chassis is awile from done.
Abelma
Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi all. I have running my Husky Cr500 83 with the KX 500 connecting rod. Vibration levels very good having in consideration that is 500 2T monocylinder, but i did not check before with oem rod because i bought it not running.Anyway a friend who has another CR500 he said that level vibration was very good. I did run like two hours and i will disassemble for a check and service. The crank pin is new made, it needs two outside diameters, bigger at the center. Good steel and hardness treatment after. I have to check if the new pin has not any wearing. The good thing is that it is 100% possible to install the Husky rod again and better because it is possible now to put the two anti friction washers.