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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1973 360RT Restoration

Picklito said:
I am pretty much speechless! It's beautiful. Are you going to be able to get it street plated here in Kalifornia?
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Thanks for the compliment. I don't plan on registering it for the street but with mirrors and DOT tires I don't see why it wouldn't be possible.
 
It's certainly old enough to qualify, but you know how Kalifornia is about letting any two strokes get back on the street.
 
Well my RT is finished and I'm very pleased with the way it turned out. As with all restorations there were some difficulties getting things right but with perseverance its worth it in the end. Not only does it look great but its easy to start. The compression on this motor is nothing compared to the 450 and with a rebuilt carb, new seals, and timing set with a buzz box its a breeze to start. I'm retired and I restore these bikes strictly for the enjoyment and this project was very satisfying, so if you like this bike and want to buy it check out Ebay this next week. I'll probably start bidding at $9,500.

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Great Restoration, currently building a 73 cr400, but a rt360 is next on the list, missing some parts...... taillight, indicators and horn, battery box. Again great restoration and Beautiful Machine
 
Crashaholic said:
GoVintage, the crimper I use is an Accel 170036 with an open barrel die set. The place where I got the terminals has a similar crimper for less than what I paid for mine. Heres the link if you want to check it out plus they carry terminals and the gray sheathing. http://www.vintageconnections.com/
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I bought a kit/items thru this place for my DT-1, RT-1 Yamaha's , very happy with them and can do NOS looking repairs
+1 for vintageconnections.com
 
Thanks Larry for complement. The RT was complete when I bought it and in good condition so I didn't have to source many parts just worn out stuff. Off hand I don't know of any source for Sportsman parts. I have seen them show up on Ebay from time to time over the years.

Theres a 68 Sportsman inner fender on Ebay. The 68 inner fender appears to be the same as the 72 based on Husky parts list.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-1968-H...ash=item3f398eac88:g:c9AAAOSwXY5ZUSBh&vxp=mtr
 
Thank you. I appreciate the link. Since mine is a '72 the fenders were steel. There are some listed on eBay, but I think they're more generic. I know some folks will get the aluminum fenders and paint them red, and the rear is very long, so I was thinking of that if there was an easy source. Your fenders looked very nice, so great you were able to find a bike to start with that was so straight! Thanks for the help!
Crashaholic said:
Thanks Larry for complement. The RT was complete when I bought it and in good condition so I didn't have to source many parts just worn out stuff. Off hand I don't know of any source for Sportsman parts. I have seen them show up on Ebay from time to time over the years.

Theres a 68 Sportsman inner fender on Ebay. The 68 inner fender appears to be the same as the 72 based on Husky parts list.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-1968-H...ash=item3f398eac88:g:c9AAAOSwXY5ZUSBh&vxp=mtr
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New ones on Ebay are no doubt reproductions and possibly different in some way. If you're patient a set of OEM's will eventually show up on Ebay or at a vintage swamp meet. If you haven't tried already call VintageHusky.com and ask John if he knows of a source of used OEM's. I'd be surprised if any of the restoration guys have them sitting around.
 
Crashaholic said:
New ones on Ebay are no doubt reproductions and possibly different in some way. If you're patient a set of OEM's will eventually show up on Ebay or at a vintage swamp meet. If you haven't tried already call VintageHusky.com and ask John if he knows of a source of used OEM's. I'd be surprised if any of the restoration guys have them sitting around.
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Will do. Thank you. John is a good guy and lives about 20 minutes from me. I'll try him. Thank you!
 
The original fenders for a RT is stainless steel. They didn't use aluminum on those models. I did buy a set on eBay about ten years ago. They were pretty close had to cut the rear fender down.
 
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