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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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
1972 450CR
- Thread starter MarkVMod0
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justintendo
klotz super techniplate junkie
luckily thats before they started using mag for the cases or they would be trash...
MarkVMod0
Husqvarna
A Class
I am pretty happy with the condition of the cases. Sometime next week I'll strip the paint and clean them up for painting. I found a lot of the engine parts I need. I got lucky and Huskydoggg had most of what I needed for the engine. He was great and tolerated my adding to the list on a daily basis. To bad he is shutting down the business.
MarkVMod0
Husqvarna
A Class
The odyssey continues.
I cleaned the corrosion from the clutch cover, couldn't really get a clean result so I took it to a shop and had it bead blasted.
Good job and it revealed the corrosion had penetrated the clutch cover. This explains the left side of the bike being covered in oil. I try to restore as much of the original bike as I can without using parts from other bikes but this one I may have to replace. There is a lot of corrosion! I may experiment with JB Weld and see if I can salvage the cover.
I'll post some pictures tomorrow.
Now on to the ever present search for paint.
I have combed through the site for the various paints and codes for the frame color. I believe I have a good alternative and it's a marine grade fuel proof paint. Moeller Honda Silver Metallic; looks like a good match. I don't believe it will be an exact match but my restoration will be a nice rider, not museum quality.
For the engine cases I found the POR 15 Chassis Black is a pretty nice match.
For the tank I am willing to pay for quality dent removal, polishing and painting because the tank is such a visible Husky mark. So who would you guys recommend?
Mike
I cleaned the corrosion from the clutch cover, couldn't really get a clean result so I took it to a shop and had it bead blasted.
Good job and it revealed the corrosion had penetrated the clutch cover. This explains the left side of the bike being covered in oil. I try to restore as much of the original bike as I can without using parts from other bikes but this one I may have to replace. There is a lot of corrosion! I may experiment with JB Weld and see if I can salvage the cover.
I'll post some pictures tomorrow.
Now on to the ever present search for paint.
I have combed through the site for the various paints and codes for the frame color. I believe I have a good alternative and it's a marine grade fuel proof paint. Moeller Honda Silver Metallic; looks like a good match. I don't believe it will be an exact match but my restoration will be a nice rider, not museum quality.
For the engine cases I found the POR 15 Chassis Black is a pretty nice match.
For the tank I am willing to pay for quality dent removal, polishing and painting because the tank is such a visible Husky mark. So who would you guys recommend?
Mike
84scrambler
Husqvarna
Pro Class
Send it to Darty, Lol He is a master husky tank painter...
I just found out about Huskydoggg too , Steve has helped me out time and time again . He is a good hearted person and I consider him a vital resource to the Husqvarna community .
I just found out about Huskydoggg too , Steve has helped me out time and time again . He is a good hearted person and I consider him a vital resource to the Husqvarna community .
Albertus
Husqvarna
This is great stuff. Keep us updated Mike. Can't wait to see the 450 hit the road.
Your CR450 build is being featured in the BikeBuilds.net
We’re currently displaying only a reduced-size photo (similar to what you’d find in Google Images).
We'd like to ask for your permission to publish the original full-size image with your build listing.
Al
Your CR450 build is being featured in the BikeBuilds.net
We’re currently displaying only a reduced-size photo (similar to what you’d find in Google Images).
We'd like to ask for your permission to publish the original full-size image with your build listing.
Al
MarkVMod0
Husqvarna
A Class
Thanks Steve.
I have that schematic but it does not lend well to enlargement. I was hoping for something with sharper definition.
I certainly could use the clutch pointers. While I am experienced any many things; the Husky is not one of them.
I was going to send the tank off to day but discovered the weld in the area above the frame backbone was leaking fuel. Having a lot of problems coming up with a second over piston assembly.. I have found new Wisecos' on ebay but $337. I made an offer of $275 and he came back with $335....finally just gave up on ebay. One ebay seller had one for reasonable but couldn't tell me what the measurement was, he said it was 2mm over stock... possible but without him measuring the piston I wasn't going to buy it.
I am finding the 450 difficult to source parts for at a reasonable cost. Seems everyone I contact says parts for the 450 are rare.
Mike
I have that schematic but it does not lend well to enlargement. I was hoping for something with sharper definition.
I certainly could use the clutch pointers. While I am experienced any many things; the Husky is not one of them.
I was going to send the tank off to day but discovered the weld in the area above the frame backbone was leaking fuel. Having a lot of problems coming up with a second over piston assembly.. I have found new Wisecos' on ebay but $337. I made an offer of $275 and he came back with $335....finally just gave up on ebay. One ebay seller had one for reasonable but couldn't tell me what the measurement was, he said it was 2mm over stock... possible but without him measuring the piston I wasn't going to buy it.
I am finding the 450 difficult to source parts for at a reasonable cost. Seems everyone I contact says parts for the 450 are rare.
Mike
MarkVMod0
Husqvarna
A Class
Nothing in the 2nd over piston so far.
I pulled the forks apart. Found about 200cc of H2O in one leg of course the spring was coated in rust and the steel fork tube as well. Cleaned about 3/4" of dried crud from the bottom of the stanchions, man did that old oil and crud stink. Thankfully I live alone and was able to put the parts in the dishwasher for a good hot bath.
I have an email to Race Tech. I'll get the springs from them along with emulators. Fork tubes seem pretty easy to find but I'll try to salvage the originals.
Cleaned up all the transmission gears and shafts they look pretty good but I have questions on the shift fork wear. They look robust but I still would like them checked by a Husky wrench.
Glass blasted the engine cases and outer covers then gave them a good hand wash followed by two cleanings in the dishwasher to be sure I got all the glass beads out. Painted those with POR 15 Chassis Black. Good stuff and a good match but the purist will have to be the judge of that.
Got the tank drained and ready to send out but found a crack in the weld of the leading edge weld of the fuel tank. I hope they can weld that up.
I packaged the crank and it's ready to send out to Oconnor racing. Motoplat is packaged to send to Vance for rework.
It's going along but slowly.
I'll post pictures when I get off duty.
I pulled the forks apart. Found about 200cc of H2O in one leg of course the spring was coated in rust and the steel fork tube as well. Cleaned about 3/4" of dried crud from the bottom of the stanchions, man did that old oil and crud stink. Thankfully I live alone and was able to put the parts in the dishwasher for a good hot bath.
I have an email to Race Tech. I'll get the springs from them along with emulators. Fork tubes seem pretty easy to find but I'll try to salvage the originals.
Cleaned up all the transmission gears and shafts they look pretty good but I have questions on the shift fork wear. They look robust but I still would like them checked by a Husky wrench.
Glass blasted the engine cases and outer covers then gave them a good hand wash followed by two cleanings in the dishwasher to be sure I got all the glass beads out. Painted those with POR 15 Chassis Black. Good stuff and a good match but the purist will have to be the judge of that.
Got the tank drained and ready to send out but found a crack in the weld of the leading edge weld of the fuel tank. I hope they can weld that up.
I packaged the crank and it's ready to send out to Oconnor racing. Motoplat is packaged to send to Vance for rework.
It's going along but slowly.
I'll post pictures when I get off duty.
oldbikedude
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I would like to see what the POR 15 looks like. Sounds like you are moving right along. Nice progress.
oldbikedude
Husqvarna
Pro Class
The POR 15 looks nice to me.
MarkVMod0
Husqvarna
A Class
I took the frame to the sandblaster. This guy uses a fine sand that leaves a finish something like a 220 grit. They restore classic bikes so I trust them in this regards. At the very least I would have to lightly sand the frame.
I finally got my hands on a good set of bore gauges and outside mics. Just confirmed my feel...I measured 0.10 piston to cylinder clearance. To much for me so I will have to go at least to the second over piston and ring.
Here is a picture or two of the cylinder and head sitting on the cases, all empty but gives me some satisfaction.
I thought this odd, they stamped over a number:
I finally got my hands on a good set of bore gauges and outside mics. Just confirmed my feel...I measured 0.10 piston to cylinder clearance. To much for me so I will have to go at least to the second over piston and ring.
Here is a picture or two of the cylinder and head sitting on the cases, all empty but gives me some satisfaction.
I thought this odd, they stamped over a number:
stormer254
Husqvarna
AA Class
Dyslexic stamper