• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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 430 racer build

Fired up 2nd kick. Happy Husky dance
Kick stands looks like @ss no matter what.
Well if i cut it some more it leans way over. lol
But i have too....
 
lol


Here we go

:)







shocks painted, waiting on powder coating of the springs in black.
Yellow backgrounds on the number plates will make it look even better
 
look'n good Bro:applause: , what type of numbers are those on the front number plate?? Do they snap on, cause i've got a old vented plate like that too, never used it, & never knew where to get numbers for it
 
Thanks John.

Got the numbers off ebay, they are made by Petty and they have tin nuts on the back side.
 
Been over 20 years since i rode a 430. The last one was an 82 XC i owned in the 80s.
Motor is so SWEEEET! :) + The flat side 38mm carb and internal flywheel makes the motor spool up so fast.
 
86 400 XC said:
Been over 20 years since i rode a 430. The last one was an 82 XC i owned in the 80s.
Motor is so SWEEEET! :) + The flat side 38mm carb and internal flywheel makes the motor spool up so fast.
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Yeap like a real big 250, still one of my favorite Husky motors
 
is that the stock kick starter on the 430? mines a funky peice of steel kick lever not a nice aluminium one like yours.

also, is there a good way to start these? mines got a new piston and rings, lots of compression but is a pain to get fired.
 
Hey razornpc the kick starter is from a water cooled 85 and up.
Is a bit longer which helps a bit.

Best way for me is a to
choke with no throttle
roll the motor over a few light kicks
Roll it past the hard spot, compression stroke
stand on a block, crate and kick it

all my 5 bikes start first kick just not my 75 360 lol
 
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