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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1988 WR250 revival 2016

had no idea of that, very sorry
i feel very bad on that

Please don't feel bad 2premo, this is not your fault, I didn't check fitment and that is entirely my responsibility.

By the way, those cases are in awesome condition!

I think I can have them machined without too much drama, beyond my skill level and probably beyond the scope of my small lathe/mill but shouldn't be too difficult.
 
I built and assembled a 250 five speed tranny into a 83 250cr bike. The five speed was from a later 80's bike. I can't remember the crank I used. But it worked. Your info is something to think about when swapping parts to make things work.

That's half a mm on a side obstruction. I wonder if it can be machined out using a die grinder with a carbide bit on the case. Or set up the case on a milling machine and bore it out 1/2 mm?


My thoughts are a face plate to bolt the case to, and work from inside to outside.
Does this seem feasible to those here with machining experience?
 
Another small setback, I bought some cases from 2premo, great to deal with, sent some excellent photos, packaged very well, absolutely as described and recommend highly, however my mistake was assuming that '86 250 cases were the same as '87-88 with the exception of the seal flange at the sprocket.
I was wrong. The cavity in the crankcase where the crank wheel fits on the '88 is 115mm across and the crank cheeks are 113.5mm across, the '86 cases are 112.5 across to suit the short stroke crank, I mistakenly assumed that they would be interchangeable.
I'll see if a machine shop can machine the thicker web on the 86 cases to fit the '88 crank. Of course I discovered this after fitting the bearings and crank seal, I hadn't yet assembled the transmission/clutch though!

Tony.

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Yep remember that one now.
One of the cases in the one here was rooted so mate bought a second hand one out of USA only to find that problem.
I just wopped it in the mill and machined it out.
No probs.
 
Great move. I find this stuff can be really testy sometimes. We hit bumps in the road. Sometimes it helps to stop and pop a cold one but don't you mates drink warm beer? Either it pays to regroup and plan a fix.

There's a few years or one year the 250 was different.
 
Great move. I find this stuff can be really testy sometimes. We hit bumps in the road. Sometimes it helps to stop and pop a cold one but don't you mates drink warm beer? Either it pays to regroup and plan a fix.

There's a few years or one year the 250 was different.


Bill, you're confusing us with our british counterparts, if the beer is over 2 degrees celcius it ain't gettin drunk.
Q. Why do the English drink warm beer?
A. Lucas refrigerators!

If you have ever dealt with Lucas electrics you will understand this!
 
Bill, you're confusing us with our british counterparts, if the beer is over 2 degrees celcius it ain't gettin drunk.
Q. Why do the English drink warm beer?
A. Lucas refrigerators!

If you have ever dealt with Lucas electrics you will understand this!



Lucas, the "Prince of Darkness"
 
POMS have warm beer bill, in Oz we drink stronger colder beer than the mighty USofA



don't mistake beer ads with the taste of everyone, a large population has a wide variety of tastes
the US has a great number of micro-breweries, this is common in a number of countries, I have had some fine brews from Australia's micros as well
typical of traveling to a different region of a country is the tastes seem to remain similar but with a local twist, I preferred the beer in southern Australia, one mans opinion
 
southern austraylia used to have a beer called "southwark", it resembled camel piss...had a real foamy top with a Palmolive linger... and to top it off...it was pronounced "suthark"

they have nice beer there now

The first time I ventured into an SA pub and ordered a south wark...I was shown the door:mad:
 
southern austraylia used to have a beer called "southwark", it resembled camel piss...had a real foamy top with a Palmolive linger... and to top it off...it was pronounced "suthark"

they have nice beer there now

The first time I ventured into an SA pub and ordered a south wark...I was shown the door:mad:

I just have to disagree, Southwark was way worse than camel piss!
 
don't mistake beer ads with the taste of everyone, a large population has a wide variety of tastes
the US has a great number of micro-breweries, this is common in a number of countries, I have had some fine brews from Australia's micros as well
typical of traveling to a different region of a country is the tastes seem to remain similar but with a local twist, I preferred the beer in southern Australia, one mans opinion


What is the alcohol content of most American beers these days 2premo?
I was told years ago that most were in the 2.5-3.5 percent range.
 
Yep remember that one now.
One of the cases in the one here was rooted so mate bought a second hand one out of USA only to find that problem.
I just wopped it in the mill and machined it out.
No probs.

Don't suppose you have the inclination to do another! :thumbsup:
 
What is the alcohol content of most American beers these days 2premo?
I was told years ago that most were in the 2.5-3.5 percent range.



Coors Light, which tastes like beer flavored water is 4.2%,
Sierra Nevada Hoptimum, from a local brewery, that went from micro to mainstream due to good quality is 10.4%
but most brews are anywhere from 3-6%, don't know of very many below 3, at least not that are distributed widely, Miller Brewery makes one called Miller64 at2.8% but I don't know of anyone that drinks it, a few friends drink Miller but not sure why, in my opinion there is no flavor
I favor the local breweries wherever I am, Sierra Nevada was one now I'm closer to Great Basin Brewery, now they are starting to distribute too
 
there is a local brewry doing a "vanilla Beer" 13%.my wife wanted 1...1 mouthful later and its mine... I vanilla beer later I was anyones!!
 
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