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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1982 cr500

I am so happy I can now add to this thread, i have a vin but not sure of part of its real hard to see with all the paint on it.

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I found it right here is Calgary, was not a cheap bike but a hell of a score.

Its 4 speed fairly stock but with an 84 dual pull front brake, still has the 17 on the rear and stuff.
New top end runs great 1 or 2 kicks to start it :)

I will create another thread more pics.

Steve
 
By the way... this bike has a double leading shoe front brake. So does mine. But the brochures show a single, as does the awesome article that Skoalman just posted. What gives? Should a Silver Streak have a single or a double?
 
They came with the wide single, lots of us changed them to double only to our disapointment. The single works better.
 
86 400 XC said:
I am so happy I can now add to this thread, i have a vin but not sure of part of its real hard to see with all the paint on it.

IMG_6060.jpg


I found it right here is Calgary, was not a cheap bike but a hell of a score.

Its 4 speed fairly stock but with an 84 dual pull front brake, still has the 17 on the rear and stuff.
New top end runs great 1 or 2 kicks to start it :)

I will create another thread more pics.

Steve
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Congrats ! Nice ride!
 
evcross0 said:
They came with the wide single, lots of us changed them to double only to our disapointment. The single works better.
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"Wide" single? Is that different than the other 82 CR's? What's the measurement I can look for in my pile of sad/lonely/forgotten Husky wheels?

Then there's the off-road issues... a double leading shoe becomes a double trailing shoe when you're stuck on a hill! They don't work so well backwards!
 
fark yeah looks awesome as it is .
and the twin trailing shoe shouldnt be a problem . what are you doing going backwards ?. mine still has the sls front brake
pretty much want mine to look like that . with an 18 rear wheel and modern guards . ufo white squarer ones . not too fond of the round blob stock ones
 
man that cycle world magazine atricle is awesome . dont miss out on the "view full size" on the bottom right .
it said it is a steel tank ? i htought they were alloy
 
Picklito said:
What are the 5?
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79 390 (frame mods converted to 82 tank/seat). I cut a 82 tank and widened it more towards front to hold more fuel than a 500 tank. This will probably be my trail rider. The rest go in my look but don't touch glass case.
82 XC 125
82 CR 250
82.5 CR 500
83 CR 250

Only one that I still want is the 82 CR430 some day.
 
so while the engine is apart is it worth doing anything with the ports ? were they updated at all on the later models ? are there any "works " specs known to anyone .
i like the way it makes power now so if it aint broke dont fix it but ya gotta ask ...
 
just clean out the edges of the transfers out to the gasket line and smooth the case to barrel contacts. i will flick a pic up shortly to give you an idea. effectively blueprinting the existing ports.
 
Basically he feathered out the liner to barrel edges around the transfers, smoothed to a knife edge all the bridges and made sure the barrel to engine cases were a smooth join with the gasket edge as the boundary.

he also took some off the inside of the transfers to get a smoother radius, they had some dags of material left there. no real increase in HP but torque is lifted and a slighter larger main jet was required.

Well worth the effort (except on new bikes, my 010 Kato 300 barrel is as smooth as a baby's out of the factory! No easy increases here!!)
 
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