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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1972 WR250 the beginning

Not really sure I want to update on my FUBAR top end removal... cut the obstinate remaining stud, but didn't help the barell rotate at all on the piston : (. Tried to center the cylinder to again whack on the piston, but in my haste broke the VERY thin liner sides.:banghead:.So with a broken liner and very deteriated exhaust port, I pitched the cylinder. So... now I have the 400 bottom end, I managed to use my "CZ" case splitter tool to open up the cases. Here's the pics of what I have to work with (?). Was worried that the cases crank area had rotted, but looks like I can work with them. Pic of the wayward stud finally removed! and sitting in the sledge of the gearbox area are these lovely bits : (. Haven't fingured out yet where the came from. Aren't these bikes so much fun to work on???
 

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My hats off to your stick-to-itness, well done! Once back together it will become a family heirloom! Great stories around the campfire.
 
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