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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1981 430 CR Restoration Mod. Project Bike

Its the silencer support that does that.
Later i am going to make one out of titanium and match the angle of the rear shocks.
Have you ever ran a Mossbarger reed block? looking for more mid to top.
If i ever did another resto i would like a 1982 490 spider,next to husky`s they are way cool.
 
I have a better Idea. Get a sleeve made to 82.5m/m bore and use the standard 400cc l/c piston.

The reason for this is twofold:
1. You can go from 82.5 all the way up to 88m/m in re-bores, and
2. The barrel will be less likely to crack where the middle hole is where the reed block bolts on (a common failure point).


Hope this helps!

Andy Elliott
 
Hey I just jumped from the start and to the end.. I'm going to enjoy going through everything in between now.. Thankyou for posting!!! I love this stuff!!!

Here I am at the 1982 Mauna kea 200 . I'm in the middle with the black helmet and the black and yellow fox chest protector.. or should I say about 50 lbs ago!!! This was my original 430xc that has actually got me to get my 430 that I have now. I'm going to enjoy reading this thread now and hopefully get some good ideas to set up my current 430. I appreciate you sharing!! Thanks!!! :applause:

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I really like that front disc brake.. and the black stock tank you put on is exactly what I like. It's beautiful. I'm going to investigate some kind of rear disc brake setup in the future . The downpipe reminds me of my Bultaco I had.. It should be excellent for the sand. I got an old white tank like this to use until I redo the stock tank .. I never saw a black plastic one before.. I did see a yellow though. Hey that skid plate looks great too!!! Thanks! I'll need that where I'll be riding my husky.
 
My next add on is a Thunder Products Intelajet system from:
www.thunderproducts.com
Here are some pictures of how it is mounted on my carb.
simply drill and tap a 10-32 hole and position it in centerline of carb bore.
 

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If you or anyone else out there is looking for a super quiet and lightweight silencer for a 390 or 430 i have a custom made aluminum silencer/sparkarrestor that i only ran one day and then i decided to go with a down pipe.
It was custom made to my specs by the owner of Dynoport pipes and it comes with high temp. silicone connector.

I really like that front disc brake.. and the black stock tank you put on is exactly what I like. It's beautiful. I'm going to investigate some kind of rear disc brake setup in the future . The downpipe reminds me of my Bultaco I had.. It should be excellent for the sand. I got an old white tank like this to use until I redo the stock tank .. I never saw a black plastic one before.. I did see a yellow though. Hey that skid plate looks great too!!! Thanks! I'll need that where I'll be riding my husky.
 

I wasn't planning on getting a pipe...I mean silencer/spark arrestor . Mine looks good but...
Sounds interesting.. How much you looking to get for it?
 
I wasn't planning on getting a pipe...I mean silencer/spark arrestor . Mine looks good but...
Sounds interesting.. How much you looking to get for it?

I only used it on one ride and i would like to get half what i paid for it.it will shave off probably 3 lbs and close to 4 decibles quieter.
 
Looks very interesting, please make sure to post a ride report.
This is where i mounted the fuel and air mixture manifold using a piece of 1" alum. ange iron so i could adjust it on the fly!
 

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This is where i mounted the fuel and air mixture manifold using a piece of 1" alum. ange iron so i could adjust it on the fly!

Who needs fuel injection when you can have a Thunder Products adjustable carb set up!

This is one of the best things that i have put on my no holds barred resto-mod project.

This thing is amazing and the performance gain for bang for the buck is mind blowing.

I thought that most of the gains would be at top end as this is like having a secound stage to your main jet.

The biggest benefit was felt in the low to mid as you are dropping your main jet 3-4 sizes (more the smaller your bore size is)and the top end is amazing as the 1/2 to full throttle is supplied with atomized fuel and air boost that will make your bike rev to the moon!

My Dyno was Pismo beach sand dunes, the only place you can ride a raging 430 CR like a 125 pro Moto guy.
 
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