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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Spokes and hubs

Wildebeest,
Awesom tires, congratulations :)
interesting to see you have road tires mounted, are you looking to use these for street legal use? Just asking because my 430 was made steet legal 30 years ago and at least I plan to use my bike from time to time to both wake up the neighbours early in the morning going to work and tease all of the thumpers in my town.

Lars
 
Larsa said:
Wildebeest,
Awesom tires, congratulations :)
interesting to see you have road tires mounted, are you looking to use these for street legal use? Just asking because my 430 was made steet legal 30 years ago and at least I plan to my bike from time to time to both wake up the neighbours early in the morning going to work and tease all of the thumpers in my town.

Lars
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Got tomorrow off work to get rolling. Just looked at the rear tyre and found the tyre guy has used his initiative in tyre choice and fitted a 150 instead of 140 like I asked. Won't fit with the chain. AAAAAAAAAAAAArrrrrrrggggghhhhhhhh ************************************************************************************************************************
 
Figured out my hubs and stuff, by looking through all of the parts more or less on the bike, I came to the conclusion that about 80%, including frame, is -82, and the remaining parts are from 80 and 81 as I can figure. Talked to the some husky-gurus in sweden and they confirmed that I have an -80 CR rear and an -82 CR front hub. I didn't realize until looking more closely the differences between WR and CR hub (and also the differences each year..). My rear hub did however come with sealed bearings which appearantly the -80 shouldn't have but maybe someone upgraded the bearings.

Anyways I replaced all of the bearings to SKF and I re-plated all of the steel bushings etc. Spokes on the way from Dan Axelsson in sweden, hopefully arrives tomorrow and everything fits (fingers crossed)

Thanks
Lars
 
Assembled the wheels yesterday and started straighten it. For the front wheel, I had measured the hub offset to be 15mm (brake side) and 20mm on (speedometer drive side). The wheels looked REALLY original (old and rusty) so I took these numbers as firm and original (Measured from the outermost part of each side of the hub to the outermost part of the rim)

Now, I have had hell straighten these and get these numbers aligned so I wondering if anyone know by heart or remember the offset to be different (see pic)?

With some work I have finally got the wheels OK straight, except for the shrink at the rim weld which will never be 100%, but that's not unusual I guess. These wheels were probably the most difficult ones I have ever done. Not by any means an expert but have done some wheels over the years.
 

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Over time the offset changes due to spoke tightening and even some variation when new IMO. I have found the best way is to get the spokes set and the wheels halfway straight, then put them on the bike and see they look. I like to get them centered in the forks/swingarm if possible. On some bikes, centering may not always work because of chain, brake etc. clearance.
Did you check to see if the wheels were straight? A little tweak in the rim can make straightening very frustrating. I usually roll the bare wheel across some smooth concrete. If the wheel is bent, it will be very obvious.
 
Xcuvator,
Good point with the alignment changing over the years.

I got the rim within approximately 1mm, I think I'll leave it at that for now at least. Good enough for me :)
 
This is how they ended up, only had picture on front wheel. Powdercoated hub and rim, nos spokes, new bearings etc. Good enough for me.
 

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Its a MICHELIN front tire and a METZELER rear tire (se pic).

Next up is the engine. Found some small marks on the gearbox gears, looks like pitting damage (corrosion) not mechanical wear which makes confused. I will use the gears though.

Anyone having a good inspection criteria for when to change gearbox gears? (I have per my other thread already changed all left side gears (primary,clutch, kick ..).

Thanks
Lars
 

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Envy? horribly disappointed for you... slightest look at dirt and your on your arse mate! They look like a couple of "let go" specials.... just kidding!
Getting chain oil splatter on them will be the disappointment i am thinking! very smooth... you must be getting close wb...
 
Surprize,

So these tires are for road use and legal inspection by authority (this 430 cr is legal for road use w/o limitation). As I am sure you realize, I have mx tires aswell, both vintage hockey-puck hard trelleborgs and new ones.

I can guarantee that you do not have to be dissapointed for me. full stop.

Lars
 
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