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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

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vintagecs

vintagecs

Husqvarna
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What's the order you guys use to put in a motor? I've seen lots of awesome restoration pictures with the motor alone in the frame, thinking "they must put the motor in first then place the swingarm in, but I can't get past the bottom rear motor mount. The frame gets in the way of sliding the bolt in, so I lift the motor up and forward, swing the rear motor mount up and forward, slide the bottom bolt through, then drop the motor back to finish. Last thing is the front plates. I put the motor in first then place the front plates. What do you guys do?
 

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If you are working on the 1978 OR I am sure you can put the engine in with the swingarm attached with the rear mount brackets on the swingarm pivot. The later models, it is better to have engine in first, then line up swingarm and pivot before tightening any mounts
 
Not quite following your method.I bolt the rear plates to the motor before putting it into the frame.Never really had any issues with the swing arm.
 
If you look in the manual for those early years it explains the way to remove/refit a engine.
cheers
 
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