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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

squish band 500cc

tapio

tapio

Husqvarna
A Class
Hi!

Having my engine apart, and hearing you gays talking about squish band beeing so important. I wanted to mesure my own sylinder hight.
So here i go:

How do you mesure the squish band?

How much is it supposed to be on a 83-500?

Thanks!
 
2 ways-
1) put solder on the piston top outer wrist pin/center (if that makes sense), button it back up, push thru the stroke, pull the head off and measure the compressed solder
2) pull off the head, put a sturdy straight edge across it, piston at TDC and slap some feeler gauges underneath

Sorry, don't know what the squish setting for the 500 should be but if you call George at Up-Tite inn Santa Ana , CA he'll tell you.
 
Leftcoast leftkicker;71966 said:
2 ways-
1) put solder on the piston top outer wrist pin/center (if that makes sense), button it back up, push thru the stroke, pull the head off and measure the compressed solder
2) pull off the head, put a sturdy straight edge across it, piston at TDC and slap some feeler gauges underneath

Sorry, don't know what the squish setting for the 500 should be but if you call George at Up-Tite inn Santa Ana , CA he'll tell you.
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Left Coast - Method # 2 assumes that the cylinder head is perfectly flat and machined or cast flush... I don't know so I am asking if this is the case?

T
 
Good point Husky T.

Go with the solder inline with the piston pin for the most accurate reading.

PM Picklito as he is the big fish of squish.
 
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