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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Homemade Silencer core

outboardguy

Husqvarna
B Class
I purchased my 1984 cr 500 at a yard sale for $100. I've slowly been putting money into the bike here and there, but trying to stay inexpensive where I can.

The bike has a cobra silencer with a spark arrester but it had no core and as you can imagine was quite loud.( I could feel each pulse of the engine in my eardrum)

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I decided to build my own core. After removing the spark arrester I found that the 1 1/4 pipe leading into the canister protruded a bit into the can. I found a thin piece of pipe from a halogen light stand.I sliced into it every inch and then offset the next row until I had four rows. I then heated each section with a torch and puched it in to make a louver.

I was planning on welding legs to the core and riveting them to the side of the can. After test fitting the core I found the spark arrester had a protrusion in the middle as well. I decided to extend my core a bit so when I tap the arrester on it would support the core.

After wrapping the core in glass and installing it, we used my brother's iPhone to test the decibel level. It was maxing out at 100 db but averaged around 98 db. According to the forest service the limit for this era bike is 101 db.

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My mate rolled up on his new/ish HD Fri eve, looks like the same baffle core used in Vance and Hines pipes.
 
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