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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

1983 175 WR

Kartwheel68

Kartwheel68

Husqvarna
Pro Class
I've mentioned it several times, but here is what I am starting with before I get going on the restore. It will be a racer, but a nice racer. I have the original 175 cylinder, I put that bare '82 125 top end on it just to keep junk out of the bottom end. The side panels are original, but very beat up, and the seat cover is supposed to be yellow, but I'll keep the blue. I took the Betor ITCs off and these are Ohlins ITCs I got on eBay. The tank is the larger 3.1gal tank, and I will find a 2.7gal that this bike came with. If someone has a 2.7gal tank they would like to trade I'm open, this tank has no cracks and a rattle can paint job, but it does have one pretty good dent on the right side.

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Kartwheel68 said:
I've mentioned it several times, but here is what I am starting with before I get going on the restore. It will be a racer, but a nice racer. I have the original 175 cylinder, I put that bare '82 125 top end on it just to keep junk out of the bottom end. The side panels are original, but very beat up, and the seat cover is supposed to be yellow, but I'll keep the blue. I took the Betor ITCs off and these are Ohlins ITCs I got on eBay. The tank is the larger 3.1gal tank, and I will find a 2.7gal that this bike came with. If someone has a 2.7gal tank they would like to trade I'm open, this tank has no cracks and a rattle can paint job, but it does have one pretty good dent on the right side.

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Blue seat cover is correct for wr, xc was yellow and cr was black.
 
I thought it was the other way with the WR and XC colors. Thats good because I was not going to put that awful yellow seat cover on it anyway even if it was correct. :)
 
Yeah, thats what I thought. I have a picture of Mark Hyde at the '82 Czecho ISDE on an '83 175WR with a yellow seat, donno. Whatever it came with, I'm leaving the blue as I think it looks the best with the overall '83 graphics.
 
Mark Hyde at the '82 ISDE, '83 175WR. Looking at the bike, this could be an XC with headlight, taillight, WR rear fender and side panels, since it has the yellow seat cover and longer travel fork lowers like the CR/XC not the shorter ones on the WRs.

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The '82 kit had a Pro Circuit pipe with a bigger manifold than the 125, for the '83 175 bikes the exhaust and manifold was the same as the 125.

The bike in California has a smaller carb with some kind of adapter in the intake boot. The bike in Missouri has a 250 engine in it.
 
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