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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1928 Husqvarna Model 200

DeathFromAbove

DeathFromAbove

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So It's not a left kicker but a Husqvarna all the same.
I bought this as a 30 yr of work for my last company gift to myself.
I have my own company now and and working harder than before
This 550cc v twin is pretty complete and has the look I want in an antique.
As I repair the things I see, Ill lost up pic and what not like she is the welcome addition to my collection.
It was imported from Austria.
And was a clusterF of an operation for me with NO experience.
That said it is in the shop and waiting.

So I got a chance to sit down on a bucket and do an examination on this bike cursory as it might be I found three or four kind of glaring problems but nothing that can't be remedied.
Looks like a craigslist paint job on the frame and everything else the black
. Broken stud off the oil tank
Front right lever is for outside band brake on rear wheel not holding in the front of the perch
They stuffed a little bitty new battery that's dead and the Bosch box
Spark plug wires don't seem to be actually connected to the magneto
When I pulled one of the wires the rear spark plug wobbled in its hole
Throttle is binding
Lots of new fasteners in all the wrong places
Headlight was removed for shipping without a drawing on which pieces go and what order to put it back together.
Compression release is not adjusted properly
Found a brand new clevis pin laying under the bike could not find out where it came from yet
Drive cover's been hacked looks like with tin snips.
I'm going to say this bike hasn't ran in a long time they said 2021 I'm going to say I doubt it

That's all I want to think about at this point looks like I got some real investigations to do we'll see how we roll
More Pics To come. Chris
 

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For a 97 year old motorcycle I'd say it looks pretty good. Since its used, its no surprise that bits and pieces would be missing or show wear. Looks like a great project for a mechanically inclined fellow.
 
Those external valves are a hoot. Can't wait to see them when the bike is running. Goes to show the level of tech at that time. Amazing.
 
There's a video of me getting it to start fire a few times in those pictures My biggest concern is it's leaking oil everywhere I have no idea how this oil system works so it's going to take a little bit of work I'm probably going to have to pull the engine apart and reseal it cuz it looks like somebody get a pretty s***** job just passed it I guess I don't know The other thing is the electrical system it's got the weirdest rotary high low switch high beam low beam switch I was able to get it to work but I haven't got the tail like to work yet so we're moving towards that.
 
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So I found out why this thing is leaking oil sure I understand the spoiling system though I think the system is like oil tank to pump through the front bearings out the back and the hand pump on the left side is for manually scavenging the sum I think I have that right any advice on this best and Lloyd oil pump or replacement casting is welcome
There is a guy in I want to say Czechoslovakia it's making them but they're like $400 ouch
Also the secondary chain guard was allowed to rub the s*** out of the side case of the engine that's going to have to come apart and be welded eventually and reworked they also hacked that side cover so it's all got to be redone so that it looks beautiful
 

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DeathFromAbove said:
Also the secondary chain guard was allowed to rub the s*** out of the side case of the engine that's going to have to come apart and be welded eventually and reworked they also hacked that side cover so it's all got to be redone so that it looks beautiful
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When I'm 100 yrs old I'll most likely be in the same condition but the difference will be there won't be anything that'll make me look beautiful. :eek:
 
Its a very unique Husky. Considering its age I can understand it having issues. I see it as a project that you may tinker with for some time, little by little. Just find enjoyment in whatever specific part you tackle. I tinker with my 75 450 project more than I ride it due to health reasons and enjoy it.
 
I've been looking for any technical manuals or operation manuals for this bike for a few months and haven't been able to get my hands on anything. Even from the Husqvarna Museum in Sweden.! Any Leads are Welcome.
 
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