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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1979 WR 250

I'm sending my entire pipe assembly to the pipe shop I have used in the past - Fusion One Cromwell CT. They do pipes for $60. Whatever dents they don't get out, I will then deal with by either cutting it open or using the stud welder to put pins on to pull. The silencer looks tough to plug in a way that would allow the heat/air technique to work, but if anyone can do it, it will be a pipe shop.
 
Well, I pulled the top end. Feels like I'll be splitting the case and taking my crank and top end somewhere.
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There's no diagonal cross-hatching visible in the cylinder, just horizontal and vertical lines. Vertical lines come from the usual, I'm sure. If I had to guess, someone tried to remove the vertical lines with a hone, unless someone else has a better theory. The ring looks new to me, but piston definitely isn't. The vertical lines aren't that deep, so I suspect a .5mm overbore will get it. Overall the inside doesn't look that bad to me aside from noted items.

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The head nuts/bolts were definitely not torqued to spec (light), and based on the build-up around the edge of the head, it may have been run that way (or at the very least without the head lapped between top-pops).
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I guess as long as the boys are going in the cold water on this one, I should probably pick up a new ignition while I'm at it... The lighting circuit lead is AWOL (something I noticed previously, but was willing to ignore when my thought was to try to bring it up to riding condition on the cheap)....
 
Eric The Leg said:
Well, I pulled the top end. Feels like I'll be splitting the case and taking my crank and top end somewhere.
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There's no diagonal cross-hatching visible in the cylinder, just horizontal and vertical lines. Vertical lines come from the usual, I'm sure. If I had to guess, someone tried to remove the vertical lines with a hone, unless someone else has a better theory. The ring looks new to me, but piston definitely isn't. The vertical lines aren't that deep, so I suspect a .5mm overbore will get it. Overall the inside doesn't look that bad to me aside from noted items.

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The head nuts/bolts were definitely not torqued to spec (light), and based on the build-up around the edge of the head, it may have been run that way (or at the very least without the head lapped between top-pops).
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I guess as long as the boys are going in the cold water on this one, I should probably pick up a new ignition while I'm at it... The lighting circuit lead is AWOL (something I noticed previously, but was willing to ignore when my thought was to try to bring it up to riding condition on the cheap)....
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gotta love seeing the gasket sealer on air cooled husky heads...always makes them leak!
 
About a third of the cylinder base gasket was missing too. Add to that that there's enough oil (smells like gear, not mix) in the well to coat the crank when rotated... I think I've heard BigBill sing this tune....
 
suprize said:
the only tune I can hear is " New Seals newsealsnewseal new seals"
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At this point that's a given.
I need to get the case split and check the rest of the internals before I go off and buy parts. This one might be on hold (aside from further D&D) until my annual big paycheck.

I'll work on a couple of minor projects on my other bikes, and maybe fine-tuning forks in the meantime.
 
So, question for a peanut gallery... At work they reassigned me to a new area and gave me a new team (because who needs to have balance between the time you spend to make the money to pay the bills, and having time to spend the money that's left over after paying the bills doing something you enjoy...), and of course, I tell them a 'lil'bout me, and mention my bikes.
Later on, one of my employees asks me, "have you ever thought about getting into classic bikes?"
Of course, I responded to her that 'some people would consider at 1979 Husqvarna to be a classic bike.'
Granting mine is in bits right now. But I'm curious for others' thoughts.
At what point do you consider a Husqvarna to be classic. And how do you respond to people who seem to think that only road bikes (likely Harleys, or maybe Indians) can be considered classic?
 
in oz, classic is pre 78 (I think) and post classic to pre 90. these dates may change as age wearies us.

your friend may think "classic" is anything from england
 
Eric The Leg said:
So, question for a peanut gallery... At work they reassigned me to a new area and gave me a new team (because who needs to have balance between the time you spend to make the money to pay the bills, and having time to spend the money that's left over after paying the bills doing something you enjoy...), and of course, I tell them a 'lil'bout me, and mention my bikes.
Later on, one of my employees asks me, "have you ever thought about getting into classic bikes?"
Of course, I responded to her that 'some people would consider at 1979 Husqvarna to be a classic bike.'
Granting mine is in bits right now. But I'm curious for others' thoughts.
At what point do you consider a Husqvarna to be classic. And how do you respond to people who seem to think that only road bikes (likely Harleys, or maybe Indians) can be considered classic?
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some people just dont get dirt bikes..kind of ignorant to not consider any of them classic.
hard to say what is considered a classic..really a matter of taste i suppose, unless you consult race classes.
 
In cars don't they use 25 years old to denote classic and I don't know what to describe vintage?
I figure anything that's older than most of your co workers is a classic :D
 
Been slowly working on things.
After a bit of clamping, heating, pounding, cooling, heating, clamping, prying, pounding,cooling, heating, clamping, pounding, you get the idea, the rear portion of the frame is a lot better than when I started. Also, I've probably gone from 'intriguing new neighbor with several old motorcycles filling his garage' to 'persona non grata' within the neighborhood.
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I've also noticed that one of the rear motor mount holes in the frame is a little bit out of round. I can figure that one out, but in the meantime, if anyone else has run into that and has a sufficiently elegant solution to warrant mention, let me know.
I've also been accumulating parts, I'll probably rattle-can the frame (if I ever do full restore, the frame would need significant sectioning or outright replacement), and start focusing on mechanical after one more clamp and burn session. Any suggestions for primer or a decent color match on the frame?
 
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