• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 WR 390 Rescue...

jimspac said:
I have used Rustoleum semi gloss engine paint on engines and triple clamps. It will likely work on the fork legs as well. I have not tried that yet.
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Thanks for that info Jim... I have the PJ1 Satin Black for the cases... I figured I would try that on the triples and forks as well maybe the hubs also if I get carried away. I used the PJ1 many years ago and it held up well on a 100 Kawasaki engine that I transplanted to a 125 Maico frame.
 
Spent some time in the shop tonight... Stripped off all the new parts I just put on and packed them away...

Started the tear down for Powder Coat of the frame and a few other parts. Made some good progress for just a few hours I think.

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That is the fun part of working on vintage. Unless something is severely rusted, they strip down pretty fast.
 
Spent a few hours today cleaning hardware waiting for a buddy of mine to call me so I can get the welding done... Still waiting!

On the bright side had a delivery from across the pond today!
HVA Factory is amazing! I ordered on Tuesday and had the package on Friday!

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Well I have a sickness... Just ask my wife!
Once I start cleaning I can't stop!
Couple that with being bored today since it's been snowing all day and I get OOC (Out Of Control) my wife's term...

I know it's not the correct finish but I am doing a Resto-Mod not a restoration to showroom condition.

Yes you can polish zinc plated fasteners!

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Jury is still out on polishing the engine mount plates... I like the brush finish but polishing them will make the finish last longer by sealing the surface.
 
Only bad thing about wire wheeling and polishing zinc plated material is that it will rust in about a year or so, unless you keep it in the house or maybe if you live out west.
 
SnoDrtRdr, How'd the zinc plating turn out, the nyloc nuts handled the process? I'm about to send a bunch to the plater next week.
 
the nuts will loose the nylon in any plating process. grab a box of new ones unless your concoursing and just plate the bolts
 
Question:

Is this bike (1980 WR 390) supposed to have a chain guard? There are tabs for a chain guard on the swing arm but I don't see any in the parts book.

BTW Welding got done yesterday and the frame and bits are going to the Powder Coater this afternoon!
 
84scrambler said:
Only bad thing about wire wheeling and polishing zinc plated material is that it will rust in about a year or so, unless you keep it in the house or maybe if you live out west.
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Agreed, the fastener being rusted (as opposed to just coated with junk) means that the plating is compromised, you can clean it up, but it'll continue down that path once started.

I still do it all the time though :D

If you ride with any frequency and do the requisite wrenching, you'll have plenty of opportunities to spot when it's time to make that trip to the bolt store or website.
 
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