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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Trefle Lozerien AMV French Enduro (HVA Factory Andy Elliot)

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I looked carefully at the gears, and there are signs that water has been left sitting on top of the tranny oil!

Never seen one that destroyed before though...
Andy
 
We have just secured 3 entries for the Trefle Lorizien 3 day Enduro 2015!!!

Our team will ALL be mounted on Twinshock Huskys.

If anyone would like to come and help with re-fuelling (150 mile laps each day) they would be most welcome!


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Andy
 
That other gear next to the one with no teeth doesn't look healthy too.
Bad heat treating or I seen some riders push there bikes while low on oil.
The metallurgy starts to change at 400 degrees. I'm not saying the owner of this bike did this this but when we buy a used one who knows it's history. I wouldn't replace one gear. I replace them all. The heat treating black finish that's still on the gear set the better.

Over heat treating make the metal brittle. Under heat treating leaves the metal soft. I wonder what the Rockwell hardness is on the gears.

I'm sorry for being concerned but after being a machine builder and a lead engineering tech for my last 20 years of working I see things from both sides of the fence. I wanna know why things break. We need to know the cause before we can move forward so it won't repeat. In my many years of husqvarna rebuilding tranny problems only happened once. A roller guide pin on a '76 fork broke off. I figured it's age.

Sometimes I need to wake up and realize how old these are too.

There's a lot of other brands of bikes in the scrap pile. Plus I think most husqvarna bikes don't get ridden hard by most owners besides the guys here in the northeast.
 
No, we use Electrex ignitions.
At the time, were concerned that it might be really hot (how wrong I was!) - so we added some vent hoses to get some airflow around the ignition system.
Following trials since, we would now run the ignition half full of oil to get the heat dissipation to the alloy ignition cover - but it has not been needed...

We don't use any 30 year old ignitions - as although some go on for ever - they will most likely fail when you get them really hot! It is a long way to go to leave things like this to chance.

Andy
 
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