• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 XC 250 project

Long Range

Long Range

Husqvarna
B Class
I've made some progress on my 82 XC 250 and thought I would post up my project. I've been watching the various builds, and I decided to try to mount up some modern USD front forks. These forks are from a 2000 Yamaha YZ 250, and they are mounted with KTM triple clamps. The top clamp is 54 mm diameter and the bottom clamp 57 mm, both with 20 mm offset. These were used by KTM on many of their EXC models from 00-01, I think. It has a KTM 244 mm stem along with new steering-head bearings (L45449). I used new KTM parts for the stem screw, upper bearing cover and seal.

The YZ forks are 54 mm at the top clamping area, so they fit the upper KTM clamp without much modification - just a little honing. The lower clamping area on the YZ forks is 58.4 mm (2.299"). This required some boring of the KTM clamp to open it up from 57 mm to 58.55 mm (2.305") - done by my remarkably talented machinist-neighbor. :)
Gary
 

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Long Range,

Very coooooooool**************************************** Nice vision and execution.

Firm believer in the ol' moto "......not so much what you know BUT who you know...." W/out alot of very talented people and their willingness to help - my project wouldn't have been possible either. Props to your neighbor. You owe him a lunch!

Keep posting up what you doing. I'm watching.

Rick
 
LR,
"......Got a long way to go... " Believe me I understand.
Curious to know what your wheel plans are.
Rick
 
Rick,
I got a YZ front hub, new OEM Yamaha spokes, and a rotor from an auction site. Painted the hub gloss black (rattle can). Looks pretty good and can still get the spokes through the holes. I'm going to lace up a new black 21" rim from Moose Racing.

For the rear, I got a hub from an 85 XC 500 that I painted gloss black. Got some new wide EBC shoes for it. I'm using stock Husky spokes with an 18" black Moose rim. These spokes aren't in the greatest shape, but they cleaned up ok with 0000 steel wool. Would be nice to get them replated though.
 
LR,
No intent to hi-jak ---- promise.

Funny you should be doing this too. I'm accumulating and cleaning present parts for a future wheel build too.

This is how I am cleaning my stock YZ spokes for a future front wheel build.

(1) Chucked them up in a drill press. Hit them w/ the Turtle Wax chrome polish to remove the mung and gunk. Followed by the Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish for the shine.

(2) Tell which ones are done and which aren't?
 

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Nice work on the front end! Long Range
Have you tried swinging the forks with the fuel tank on? Assuming you are using the stock Husky tank and if it hits the steering stops on the frame before the side of the tank with the different triple clamps?
It would be very COOL to see the same picture of the frame/front end with a Husky fuel tank in place (even if its temporary)

Regards,
Team WR
 
Team WR,
"Have you tried swinging the forks with the fuel tank on? " Good point!
I've got both a CR 390 alum tank and a larger plastic tank that I can drop on to the frame to check the clearance. Will post up some pics soon as I can get to it.
Gary
 
I placed a seat assembly and an aluminum '80 CR tank on the frame to check for clearance with the forks at full lock. No problems seen with this tank as there is about 13 to 15 mm gap. I pulled hard on the bar end to compress the fork stop and still had plenty of clearance. I don't have an 81-82 tank to check with these KTM clamps, but Schimmelaw's YZ triples provided enough clearance with that tank shape on his bike.

I can't find my plastic tank right now.
 

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Thanks HuskyT,
Yeah that seat is, ... uhhh, a little crusty. Kinda reminds me of a set of leathers I had back in the day.
 
Update on front wheel progress. Lacing this one was relatively easy. The back wheel is proving to be mentally challenging. :)
 

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LR,
Sweet****************************************! Nice work w/ great results.

That rear wheel respoke can be a bit-h. Big hub w/ short spokes. Not alot of wiggle room. "...mentaly challenging..." Uh huh. Mine gave me a migrane before it was all said and done.

Continue forward - I'm watching.
Rick
 
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