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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1980 390CR - 420 upgrade

ruwfo

ruwfo

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I've had this 390 forever (since 2006), when i bought her as a real turd. I rebuilt her, but lately she was sort of pushed in the corner & cover up, not raced since 2015 & getting a little tired (ok you could turn it over by hand). Since my 430CR gotten all the duty for a while, i thought i'd finally
getting her back to good health. Actually thought of selling her, but thank god, i didn't, knowing
i'd likely never find another one.

Thanks to a fellow Cafehusky member :thumbsup:, i got a nice used complete 420 top end winter of 2020. While i was slowly working on her since then (rebuilding suspension), I finally got to getting around to top end.

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I bought my 1980 390 with a 420 upgrade already in. Haven't rode it yet buy here it makes a nice improvement.
 
While, i had the top end off, i decided to replace the partly dented pipe (with a broken frame mount), with really nice one i found on Ebay, even though it's from a 80 390WR. But in reality from the outside other then the heat shield & 2 rear tabs for silencer, i could not see any differences between this WR pipe & the CR it had on it.

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