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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

83 CR500, here begineth the lesson

did you weld the extra lug on??
was it easy to come by a lump of magnesium???
oh and looking good BTW! but better with the wheels on..
 
Well, as you ask. Ally block comes perfectly profiled.
Spot through.
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Drill.
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tap m4
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Clamp, fit loctited screws.
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Drill with guide.
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Tap m6
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Clean up and job done.
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yes ok. pretty sensible option at this stage of the rebuild...
nicely presented.
Will you be racing this or hooning on the streets?
 
Thats what I call a good Friday. Lots of bits and pieces left though, its off to see the exhaust man to get the pipe to fit next week.
It was only when the 610-TE gear lever arrived in Cagiva/MV Augusta packaging I realised it now has an Italian side.

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Tyres should be good for the English country lanes, problems with the chain running on the rear tyre but managed to get 4mm off the front sprocket with no drama and made a spacer out of an old sprocket to go out 4mm. Just enough I think....

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Hi wb ive been following your rebuild since the start and the bike looks awesome keep coming with the pics and vids
 
Thanks for the comments. Lesson for the day, never ever leave a welder without adult supervision. I now have to hack the brake pull tab off my flash converted KTM lever and get one welded on in the right place !

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coming along nicely ol mate... what are your muffler plans? home made one or got an aftermarket lined up?
 
Got the one supplied with the pipe, looks good. My welders are ripping it out of the pipe, a proform from the US. Needs a good cut and shut to clear the tank, will post up the pics. Making up spacers and boring stuff to finsh off stuff now, modifying an R6 front mudguard (bear with me). Top priority now as the KTM let go big time yesterday !!
 
Great to see someone using their head when it comes, to solving design problems (broken engine cases). That aluminum block is simple &
functional , as older engineers would say KISS (keep it simple stupid). :cheers:

Husky John
 
Well off topic but heres something I'm doing while I wait for the exhaust man to get freed up.
92 GSXR400/2009 fuel injected KTM 690 enduro R.
Ja, ich habbe BANZAI ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************!

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Have you firmed up the rebound on the rear?
when i tried my 510 on the dirt track the back end ITCs wallowed so much the back end passed the the front...
I built a set of shocks just for dirt track with a big spacer inside to shorten them and big thick rebound shims!squats well now. my forks are the short WR type pushed all the up in the triple clamps too..
 
Brake lever fitted up. Hope to push on now although still waiting for exhaust man. Distracted by other projects a bit, rain doesn't help, monsoon in England right now !

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