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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1971 250 - Tank Details

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NMc

Husqvarna
A Class
Morning all.

Now the engine is back up and running, it's time to start to turn my attention to the shiney parts. I've been on the forum and the tech ref section trying to find details to have the tank restored.

I'm guessing originally the tank was chromed, and then painted with decals ? There's a couple of references on the site to that section of the tank being polished. Chromers are rare on the ground in the UK now, so that may be a struggle so I'm wondering whether a good metal finisher might be up to the job of making it look chrome ( ish....It'll not be the same ).

I've seen the work visiteur1948 does. I wish he did that for others as well :)

Frame and silver parts look to be RAL 9006, but I can't find reference on that for a 1971.

Also is there an accepted RAL for a 1971 250 ? I've found a couple of references, but they were later bikes.

Thanks in advance. Still learning about this old girl.
 
You're correct, the original tank is chrome plated. Polishing is an option but you're right again about it not turning out as shiny. I've never used RAL 9006, always perferred painting, but looking at the color swatches of 9006 online it looks good to me. Over the years Husky wasn't mindful of frame color codes. I've heard it said that the shade of gray used from the late 60's onward was left up to the person mixing the paint that week, lol.
 
Hi, Newbie here. I am looking at a 1970 250cross to buy. The tank is orange and looks like the same shape and size as the tank on my 400cross. My 400 cross is red. I think the orange tank size and shape is not original for a 250. Does anyone know about this or is there a resource on the site.
 

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I don't think orange was used pre 72. Two models with orange tanks of that shape is the 72 450 and 400, but they may be different shades of orange.
 
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